Crazy day, sweet goodnight

Well, this week has been crazy. Ever since we have started our Evangelism class on Wed. nights my home has been a warzone. It is like satan is doing everything he can to get me discouraged, frustrated, and tired. But what he fails to realize is that it only adds fuel to my fire. Call me stubborn, but the more that satan throws at me the more I am reminded of the thousands of people in our area that he has in complete bondage, on their way to hell- and the more passion I get to want to reach them! So anyway, it started with my foot. Out of the blue it starts hurting one morning...then it started aching...then, like the cautious wise man that I am, I went and played softball (couldn't sleep that night). Well, after a night of throbbing and tossing and turning, I decided to go play paintball the next day. By that night I was convinced that it was broken or fractured. So then my week was filled with sleepless nights, until my wife made me go to the doctor. So then they put me on pain medicine that helps me sleep, but makes me spacey and cranky...and I mean cranky. So today started frustrating and was full of frustrating moments (like finding out that we weren't going to have a/c again tonight). Well, after a nice long week I went to put my son to bed, and after praying for him something happened for the first time ever. He grabbed my hands in his little hands as I started to get up and he said, "Wait dad. Now it's my turn to pray." So I sat back down and listened to my son pray completely on his own for the first time ever. It went something like this," Dear God, I pray that I don't go potty in my bed, and that I have good dreams, and that I be a good boy tomorrow, and that my dad is so proud of me, and that I have no scary dreams, and that you take all of the scary animals out of my bed (I am not sure where that came from). In Jesus name, Amen." At that moment my difficult week didn't matter anymore. I wasn't feeling any pain in my foot, and all my little whiny problems seemed to quit mattering. My son prayed. It was too dark for him to see the tears in my eyes, but that simple little prayer made my week.
"The Redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,"
declares the LORD.

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.

"Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the LORD rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.

Isaiah 59:20- 60:2