Last night after coming from a Church outing, we were winding down for the night.  As I was lying on the bed, all of a sudden, the lights flickered not once, but twice, in a row and a LOUD sound came from my daughters room.  In my panic I run thinking, "EARTHQUAKE", silly me, so when I got in her room, I saw her standing up and near tears.  So my husband says to her "WHAT happened??"  She states that it was the plug, he says what happened with the plug, she says, I tried to put the bobbypin in it....so we both say, "WHAT???" So she says that she just wanted to see what would happen, so he asks her, "if the first time you saw sparks, why would you do it a second time??" She says, "she wanted to see what would happen again".  We were FLOORED!!!  I just stared at her in disbelief that she was even alive as she explained the entire story to us. 

At that very moment, I realized, that even MY child is not inexcusable from meeting Jesus one day.  We always hear about other peoples kids passing away, or being hurt physically to where they need therapy or something like that, but we never think or we can't process it happening to OUR children.  I also in all of 10 seconds started thinking about how I get SO caught up in my everyday life that I don't spend quality time with her like I should.  Yes I love her, yes we spend time together in the rush of my day, yes I listen to all of her silly jokes, yes I listen to her day of complaints.....but QUALITY time.....I have to be honest with myself, uh uhhh.  I realized at that moment that I have allowed the traffic in my life get ahold of me from spending quality time with someone that I love so dearly, my only daughter, my  little comedian.  All I could do was grab her and hold her, we cried together as we both realized the seriousness of what just happened.  After we hugged, I told her that she has a testimony to tell on Sunday at Church, this is the SECOND time the devil tried to "take her out!" I believe that she has a call on her life, the devil knows it and he is trying to attack her in anyway he can so that she can not be a blessing to God's people.  I also told her that she should have KNOWN  better being that she is, get ready for this......10 YEARS OLD!!!  I would expect it from one of the brothers who are 3 and 1, but a 10 year old???  I wasn't too hard on her, but I do think that....she gets the point of the danger of putting foreign objects into wall sockets now!

I will try and make it a daily AND weekly thing to spend QUALITY time with each one of my children and my husband, I do make it a daily thing to let them all know that I love them, but I will continue to do so, and most importantly, as long as I am breathing His air, I will let them know that they need to make SURE they are doing His will, because when it is all said and done, He gets the last word, and I pray that it is "well done, thy good and faithful servant".....we NEVER know what will happen from this day to the next.

Oh, here is a picture of the bobbypin that she stuck in the wall socket (you can even see on the top left of it where it is kind of burned)......THANK you JESUS for sparing my daughter's life....AGAIN!!

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