Thursday, September 10, 2009

The flipping kiddo:)


Yesterday morning, at 4+am..Candra decided to perform some stunts on her little bed...basically, she just kept flipping and crying off and on because she could not flip herself back and sleep... That lasted till about 6am before she decided to be quiet on her own...and then it started at 7am again...

We were wondering, what's wrong with her? She usually sleeps through till 7 or 7 plus.. it got us a little concerned. Was she uncomfortable? Was she hungry? It just so happened that I had a trial yesterday and I needed the sleep badly...but I had to be disrupted by her on and off cries. Thankfully, a sister (whose son also displayed the same behavior on the same morning, such a coincidence huh :) haha) told me that it's just a phase that Candra has to go through. She will behave like that early in the morning when she doesn't know how to flip herself back. That assured me quite a bit. yup, so for as long as she doesn't yet know how to flip herself back, I should expect some of such mornings.

The trial went on well but I did not feel really elated at the mini victory. Why? Cos only God knows whether perfect justice was achieved in that case. The reality in this world is that the outcome of a trial does depend on the competence of the lawyers, the competence of the witnesses etc. Everyone in the court is doing their job and trying their best to present and uphold the truth, but the truth may not always unfold. And all of us in the courtroom, being imperfect human beings will not be able to say with complete confidence that perfect justice was achieved at the end of the trial. Perfect justice is in our Lord.

What then was my role? To do my best as a professional and to do so with intergrity and hope that perfect justice was achieved.

So, it was a victory, but I hope it was also a victory which honoured God.

Anyway...I prayed to God last night and asked Him to cause Candra to sleep well at night cos I really needed to recuperate from the trial. I just asked for one night's of good sleep, without Candra disrupting me with her flipping. Praise the Lord! She only started calling for ppl at 740am in the morning.. which meant that I could sleep till 730am :)

I am just so thankful that I can be home with Candra today and catch some rest :) Thanks be to my loving God!






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