He does Carry

You know the saying the 'Lord doesn't take your trials away but he can make them easier'. Or in the poem 'Footprints' where it talks about the Lord carrying you through your trial. Well yesterday I was thinking about my youngest child. He was only three weeks old the first time I was put in the hospital. He was the best baby! I'm not over exaggerating. He only cried if he was hungry, needed a diaper change, and sometimes when he was sleepy. But even then we just gave him a bottle, put him in his crib, and he was out. For naps he would just go straight down waving good night to us. And then we taught him ASL, so he started to sign to us when he needed something. A perfect baby just like you read in the text books.
Well over the last two weeks he has cried when we put him down for his nap or for bed time. He wasn't using his signs as much. He started to cry a lot more and throw little fits. I didn't know what has going on. It has been better this week, using more signs again and less fits. But it wasn't until then that I remembered what an amazing baby he was. And more importantly I realized what a huge blessing it was in my life. Looking back I really don't know how I would have been able to function with a fussy high maintenance baby. It was one of the biggest blessings to me during my extreme time of need. The Lord truly was carrying me and my family. He was giving me the tender mercies I needed to get through each and every day.