Are you a person who believes in miracles? I mean really believes in them? I am, I believe that God is able to do the impossible, after all he says it in the Bible (Luke 1:37 For nothing is impossible with God.). I also believe strongly in prayer and that God hears us. He doesn’t always do what we want him to do but then why should he, he’s God and knows whats best for us (considering he knows the bigger picture).
The other day we were at a friends place for lunch. We had a really nice time and enjoyed a BBQ together. The kids played and had a ball on their trampoline while her kids giggled at ours. After lunch we went inside to take the lunch things in while my friend made a cup of tea for everyone. She had some bikkies ready for us to eat with our tea (yummy home made and some chocolate ones) which the kids took out to the table for us. There was glad wrap on the bikkies but by the time we got out there (about 1 minute later) each kid had downed a choccy bikkie each.
I looked at the biscuit and on closer inspection realised there were peanuts in them. Miss K has an epipen and is highly allergic to peanuts. Our allergist appointment is next week and we are getting Miss L tested also (she’s not been checked yet). As soon as I said the word ‘peanuts’ Miss K spat out what was in her mouth but she said she had swallowed a mouthful of the biscuit and the peanuts were throughout.
I knew this day would come. She’s four and a half and we’ve had an epipen since she was around 6 months old and has not had an anaphylactic shock reaction yet.
Strangely I was calm. I was worried yes but not panicky. I can only explain this as God taking over. I knew we had her epipen in the bag but I watched her waiting for her to puff up and start getting out of breath.
Nothing.
No reaction.
Miss L – no reaction.
They went on happily playing as if nothing was wrong at all. Now, in a weeks time when I take them for their testing it will show that her allergy has either reduced, disappeared altogether or that this was a miracle. The thing is, if she still has her allergy then its a miracle, if she doesn’t then praise God, he’s answered my prayers! There is only a 20% chance of her allergy disappearing.
So, was it a miracle of God protecting her? Not sure yet but either way, he’s looking after her and I can only praise him for that. I know people usually respond to something like this with ‘oh, you are so lucky nothing happened’. No. Luck has nothing to do with it at all, all credit goes to God.
The next morning Miss K woke up with a little sniffle and she said ‘see Mummy, I ate peanuts and I’m sick!’. How sweet.
Oh and to my friend, you don’t need to worry about this, it happens easily and the responsibility is mine. God protected my daughter and we can praise him for that together.
