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Thursday, May 19, 2005
another interesting experience
(you'll want to have read the previous entry before reading this one or it won't make any sense. Also, some of you might be really turned off by this. Sorry, please do come back anyway.)
Last night after I typed that entry I was lying on the couch, and LT (in the recliner) and I were trying to go to sleep. I was praying for my boy, asking God to help him relax and get some rest and trust in Him, and I was praying for myself, that I wouldn't let this make me anxious. I also prayed that God would help me to understand what was going on, if He could even let me feel whatever it was that LT had been feeling, so I could at least know what he was talking about for sure.
About a minute after I whispered Amen, cold chills just started coursing over my body. At first I was like, what on earth--?, and then I remembered that of course, I was getting what I had asked for, I was being let know what it was that my son was feeling and trying to describe to me. This morning when I asked him, he confirmed that the "shivery" feeling was indeed the same feeling he gets when someone rubs a jacket with their fingernails, or when he's kind of grossed out, or at the end of going pee (I would roll my eyes and say "boys" here, but it was C who came up with the last two examples). I told him that God had shown me that that was what he was feeling, and that was how I knew.
So. We don't know why it happened, or if we can expect it to happen every night, but we at least have both had confirmation that even if we don't know, God does. That sort of thing has happened in our family a handful of times -- a very visible, immediate, direct answer to prayer -- and it always leaves me with a tangible sense of the presence of God, in a very awestruck "the creator of the universe is HERE IN THIS ROOM WITH ME" kind of heebie-jeebie sort of way (speaking of cold chills). It's good to be reminded sometimes.
Comments
God is SO AWESOME. And so kind. I love these reminders of just how intimately He knows and cares for us.
I agree with your prayers for yourself and LT (regarding anxiety and trusting in the Lord, specifically), and I am thankful for our God's communication to you. :) :) :) PTL.
Posted by: Kristen at May 19, 2005 10:15 AM
Could it be a low-grade fever? That would account for chills and wanting to cling.
Posted by: dichroic at May 19, 2005 12:02 PM
Wow, that is just AMAZING. Thanks for sharing that.
How is LT, by the way -- has the shivery feeling gone away?
Posted by: mary at May 19, 2005 12:03 PM
I was pretty obsessive about checking for a fever, because that was my first thought. I gave him Tylenol early on, because if he DOES spike a fever, he throws up, and I wanted to catch him before he did. The chills continued off and on until he finally fell asleep around three, but his temperature never elevated at all.
Posted by: Rachel at May 19, 2005 03:58 PM
WOW! All I can say. WOW.
He sure seemed fine today. Hope he has been able to rest tonight. =)
Posted by: Sher at May 19, 2005 09:59 PM
