The amazing power of prayer

Like her mother, Pumpkin has motion sickness.  It was really bad when I was a child and seems to have diminished over time.  I still feel sick on long car rides, on the GO train and TTC and when flying, but I no longer toss my cookies.  To drive into the nearest town is about a 30 minute drive, so I usually save up my errands and run a bunch of them at once so I don't have to go very often.  When we drive into town (until  recently) Pumpkin has either cried the whole way there and back that her tummy hurts, or she actually throws up.  I had to take a plastic bag with my on the TTC every day because she was sure to thrown up too.

Giving her regular gravol every time I need to go on longish car rides is not an option.  A friend pointed me in the direction of the organic ginger gravol which is perfectly fine for her to take.  The problem is that the first time she took it, she chewed it.  That's like taking a piece of raw ginger and taking a bit, like you would bite an apple. EW!  it's a VERY strong taste.  Next time I ground it up and put it in honey.  Better, but she still had a melt down.

Yesterday we took Boo into town because it was it birthday.  So after 30 minutes of her melting down over it, I decided to try a new tactic - Prayer.  In the middle of my kitchen, I sat with Pumpkin and we prayed for her tummy to "be safe and not get sick" (her words) while we were in the car today.  God answered her prayer and she wasn't sick at all then entire day.

Once we got home, I reminded her that her tummy hadn't hurt the entire time and then we prayed again to thank God for answering her prayer. 

It was just a small thing, but to her it was amazing that the God of the "whole world is protecting my little tummy in the car"

Amen.