What should I be learning through this?

Today is Sunday and I'm at home with Hannah. This obviously is rare for us. She is coughing and sounds as though she's coughing up a lung. Now it's funny to me because just a month ago she was doing the same thing and I took her to a walk in clinic. The doctor said it was allergies and put her on a medication. She did great with that medicine. Then all of a sudden, it's happening again. I've been chalking it up to teething...but now I'm starting to wonder.



Even more interesting to me is that she was never ever sick until we moved to Florida. (The doctor told me, "welcome to Florida.")



So as I sit at home on a Sunday morning with a cranky baby, I'm wondering, "what should I be learning through this process?" Is God trying to teach me something and I'm just not getting it. Or is it simply what happens with children....they get sick sometimes. It is so difficult to "not know." Should I take her to the doctor, is it teething, will it just pass?



Somehow in my mind this parrallels with our faith walk. There are those times when we just don't know. There's the popular saying, "when bad things happen to good people." And they do just happen sometimes. There are those times when it is simply life. However, I'm learning more every day that there are those times when it is a "spiritual thing." God is calling us (me in particular) to a deeper walk. There are issues in my life that I have previously labeled as "just the way it is." Now I'm sensing God saying, "No, Keena - it is a spiritual thing." All of a sudden, I find God helping me through my daily walk like never before. Does that mean it is now easier. No way, in fact probably that much more difficult. But I sense that it's all going to be ok - because God is with me.



That doesn't necessarily answer my question about what to do with Hannah. But when the dust (or snot in our case) settles...there is still a God who cares for us on a daily basis!



Just my simple thoughts on this Sunday morning.