My dear husband informed me that being able to multi-task is very much a womanly art.  He just can't seem to do it, let alone understand how I can do it!  I have to say that multi-tasking comes in very handy when you have five small children and are pregnant with #6, especially when four of those are boys, the youngest of whom needs constant supervision!

My abilities came in very handy last night, as I lounged in my glider rocker, which has been used to rock every one of my children, putting yet another sleepy baby to bed for the night.  I have done a lot of my best thinking in that rocker…as well as my best praying.

Last night I was concerned about one of my older boys.  We had watched a movie a few weekends ago and he has been having trouble with tummy aches, and sleeping ever since.  There was one scene in it that had burrowed deep into his mind, and was causing him such nervousness that we was feeling sick and having nightmares.

It had gotten so bad that during the evening last night before bedtime, he came up to me with tears in his eyes, worried and scared.  Each night, my husband and I would pray with him, review scriptures, give him tummy medicine, etc. but every night, it was back.  He thought he needed to see a doctor.  My poor little man.

As I sat rocking my youngest last night, I poured out my mommy heart to The God Who Knows All Things.  I pleaded with Him to clear my dear son's mind of these issues, to give him peace and comfort, to cause him to feel love and kindness.

This morning, as he sat doing his schoolwork, he looked up at me, smiled, and said, “Mom!  It's not bothering me anymore!  I thought last night would be the same: I would get a tummy ache, and I wouldn't be able to sleep, but I fell right to sleep!”

Praise God that He hears our cries, and answers them!!!

Psalm 5:1-4

Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.  Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.  For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Now if I can just do that for my own worries and fears….back to the rocker for naptime!