Doctor visits, Ice Cream and Life

A couple of weeks ago, our daughter (Summer) had her 15-month doctor’s visit.  Praise God, she’s doing great!  Part of the check-up included shots… five of them, in fact.  I’m still not sure who was in more pain… Summer, Nicol, or me.  Summer, as many of you can probably imagine, howled and cried as the nurse plunged each of the syringes into her legs and arms.  So after it was all over, I asked her if she wanted to go get some ice cream.  That perked her up a little bit and I think she started right then and there to forget about the shots.  And by the time we got to Baskin Robbins, ordered, and started enjoying the ice cream, she was completely over the trauma that she had endured only minutes earlier.

The next day, I got to thinking about these words from Solomon: “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days draw near of which you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.’” (Ecclesiastes 12:1)

There’s coming a day for our little Summer when a good ice cream cone won’t begin take away her pain.  Oh how simple life is for her right now.  How complicated and difficult it will become.

Then I began to think about the importance of these days.  I need to live my life so that she will remember her Creator… so that she will look to Him, and seek Him, and recognize her need for Him, and give her life to Him, and love Him with everything she has… and trust Him with the painful circumstances that are destined for her journey.

Only with Him and in Him will she get by… and I’m sure she’ll still be able to enjoy a good ol’ ice cream once in a while too.