The Details of Our Lives

I believe it was Neal A Maxwell who said that God was involved in the details of our lives.

Yesterday Heidi's friend came over to play. This little girl had tried to come over on Monday and Tuesday, but things didn't work out for her to come over until Wednesday. After she had been here a while, I got a phone call from her neighbor telling me that this girl's mom had had a seizure (her first) and was now at the hospital. Needless to say, this girl ended up staying at our home for several more hours, for the most part blissfully unaware of what was going on (her dad did talk to her and tell her that he was at the doctor's with her mom).

During this time I thought about how scary it would have been for this girl to see her mom having a seizure. Watching someone have a seizure is unnerving to say the least and only after 10+ years of seeing them on occasion at the hospital have I been able to remain calm and clinical without my heart racing at the sight of uncontrollable writhing. I think this could have been emotionally damaging for this young girl. Her younger brother was with the mom during the incident and as soon as I saw him, he immediately told me about his mom shaking. Although this incident has obviously had a short term impact on him, he is pretty young and I don't think he is emotionally mature enough to imagine the worst case scenarios like his older sister would have done.

This incident brought to mind the quote about God being involved in the details of our lives and I thought about how He had helped this young girl. If she had been able to play with Heidi earlier in the week, she would not have been with us on Wednesday and probably would have been with her mom. I think we often underestimate how much God is involved in our lives and how much He watches out for us and cares for us individually.