The Testimony of Broken Dishes
by Linda Herdina

May 2006

This whole phrase “God is good. All the time. All the time God is good.”has become something of a mantra in our home. You see, God gives us regular prompts to practice saying it to one another. Our “teacher” is our four year old daughter Kate.

Our meal times as a family are truly “adventures in dining”. Kate doesn’t have the same relationship with food as the rest of us. Food isn’t her love language.J Due to medical issues-she is on a feeding tube, developmental delays, and some other factors, meals are not her forte. We regularly have dishes, and their contents, fly off the table by a sweep of her hand. On a good day one of us is faster than she is and we intercept the item. Most days we resign ourselves to the job of cleaning up.

For most of a year I(Linda) struggled with this whole thing as you might imagine. I would quietly pray for patience and repeat these words to myself while I started the clean up. Never mind the fact that it was frequently my meal that had gone overboard. One day it was like God told me to start saying the words out loud. My boys instantly picked up on this and the idea that they could help me. It is frequently a race now to see which boy can get the words out first. And the rags too. They don’t know it, but some days they stand in the gap for me when my heart feels too weary to verbalize the truth. God is good. All the time. All the time God is good.

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