Prayers with Dinner

We have been the recipient of many a cooked dinner from wonderful people who know what really helps in hard situations. I don't know what it is about a dinner that I did not have any involvement in being the best food I have ever tasted. If someone drops off canned sauce lasagna, frozen garlic bread and wilty bagged salad and it is 5:00 and people are looking to me to sustain them my taste buds suddenly are not so picky. Often I have days when surviving is the name of the game. Enjoying what we are eating and surviving sometimes don't match up.

There is no better time to cook a meal for someone than when they are pregnant. The traditional time to bring a meal is after the baby is born which is always helpful. But if you want to really bring a pregnant women a gift than cook her dinner while she is in the most uncomfortable part of her fertile life. I have been pregnant a time or two and I know I would have loved a meal cooked for me from month 7 until month 9. Somehow when you are in the homestretch of baby manufacturing food is something you wish would just appear when necessary.

This week the girls and I are making a dinner for a Coast Guard wife who is pregnant with twins, on bed rest and has a 2 year old. Her husband has been out of town because his pregnant sister was killed in a car accident last week. What else do you do? Sometimes just a simple dinner will make a few moments easier to bear. That is my hope for this Coast Guard family.

Please pray for the families in San Diego that were involved in helo/C-130 crash. Pete was classmates with some of the guys and it is always hard on them. Hero's don't die...right?