I would also add to the above beautitude, that for me anyway, it is much easier to give than receive. For whatever reason (pride, most likely), I have a difficult time asking for or admitting I need help. It literally has to be forced on me.

Which is why I am so blessed today. I have two friends that kindly forced help on me yesterday that I desperately needed. I've been sick all week--nothing major, just one of those nasty viruses that knocks you flat with congestion, fever, and that feeling that your very bones hurt. Yesterday was the worst day of the whole illness. My children wanted to go to homeschool bowling, but I knew there was no way I could sit in the loud bowling alley for 2 hours. Enter two awesome military spouse homeschool moms--THAT is a killer combination! -- my friends Mia and Angie. I asked if they could just run the kids back and forth to bowl. What they did was much more. They compared notes, fed them lunch and dinner, kept them playing and entertained at their houses, and even brought ME food. I didn't see the kids until after 8 last night!

It is very humbling to be in need of help, even moreso to take it. I recently played piano for a chapel service I don't normally attend, and was introduced to a new song for me, "The Servant Song":

Will you let me be your servant?

Let me be as Christ to you

Pray that I may have the grace to

Let you be my servant, too.

That would sum it up in a nutshell. Thank you, sweet ladies for blessing my socks off!