Comments on: Praise the Lord for Fleas and Lice https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 26 Dec 2015 19:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17459 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:10:32 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17459 In reply to Lzs298.

Lol! That’s an idea! 🙂

]]> By: Lzs298 https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17458 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:50:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17458 This is unfortunate.  I am going through really hard times and was looking for inspiration.  I Googled Corrie Ten Boom, already knowing the story.  I am really having problems now, and the next line  is about your private school in Oxford problems?  I can’t even relate and now I feel even worse.  Guess I’ll give thanks for it anyway.

]]> By: live different « breathing https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17457 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:06:09 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17457 […] should be something different about us,” I”m thinking, listening, remembering the story of Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy, the sister who gave thanks for fleas in a concentration camp bed because she believed 1 […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17456 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:38:34 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17456 Thanks Penelope; indeed!

Thanks, Valerie. Never thought of it that way:-). YOu're right!

]]> By: Penelope Swithinbank https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17455 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:36:03 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17455 Anita, thank you for reminding me of the Corrie Ten Boom story. Giving thanks in ALL circumstances is a lesson to be relearnt, although easier said than done. Thanks in brokenness is hard, too. But Corrie Ten Boom shows this so gracefully. Thank you!

]]> By: Valerie https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17454 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:07:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17454 One of my boys use to attend a school for children with social communication difficulties. I remember talking to one of the other mothers about how we were pleased to find head lice as it was physical proof that they must have been socialising with other kids. So if your children have lice, rejoice, it means they have friends.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17453 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:41:20 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17453 What an adorable story. I used to be wring my hands and feel like a failure mother. Luckily they are both in high school now, and we haven't had a dreaded lice letter for a couple of years now!!

]]> By: Nancy Wallace https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17452 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:11:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/30/praise-the-lord-for-fleas-and-lice/#comment-17452 I love that story from Corrie ten Book and the encouragement to praise the Lord in all circumstances. Our family has many lice stories. At one time our 3 children were at 3 different schools and they all got head lice from time to time – in fact often – apparently head lice prefer clean and straight hair. One of our sons at about 5 years old was ecstatic with joy when he saw once of his (dead) head lice magnified many times under a microscope after my husband made a slide of it. He was so proud and truly grateful to see this beautiful creature filled with his own blood! You too can see it if you wish in a photo I posted here http://nancysblog-seeker.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/awesome.html

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