Do you know?

I have ALWAYS wondered how calm I would be in the heat of disaster. Would I be able to use my skillz of CPR and save a choking baby? Would I be able to lift a car off of a trapped child? If Rob fell over and became unresponsive would I be able to revive him? If there were a fire in my home would I be able to get everyone out of the house? If there were ever a fire on my stove would I be able to put it out before it spread?

I have had these thoughts often and I have thanked my lucky stars that I have not had to find out BUT still, I just wonder...

On another note...

If you go to cook some lunch on your stove and there is food in the unit, don't turn the unit on thinking that it will just burn off. And if you do anyway and it starts to really smoke up the house and you wonder why you didn't take my advice, don't try to fan the smoke away. And if you do fan the smoke away and that little fire starts in the unit, ask yourself if this is the moment you have been wondering about and if you are calm enough to take care of the impending disaster. You might also quickly ask yourself these other questions (yes there is time, somehow I just know): Is this the kind of fire that you aren't supposed to put water on or that you are? Isn't there a common household item that I can throw on it to smother it?

Then calmly walk over to the cupboard and try to look through everything while trying to remember what it is. Salt? No. Oil? He he! Snort! That was funny. (Oh yeah you have a fire to put out.) Corn starch? No. That would not be it. Corn starch is flammable. Not that I would know or anything. But... If you do put cornstarch on it and the flames get higher, a kid-size cup of water should do the trick. When it is all out, then you might remember that DUH it wasn't cornstarch. It is baking soda! (At least that is what I have heard. At this point you wouldn't know if it works as you don't have any fire left to try it on.)

As you clean up the awful mess that you made and you realize that the kids are all safe in the living room (and not outside under our if-there-is-ever-a-fire-in-the-house meeting place), then you will know. You got what it takes. You could be a firefighter. You could work as a paramedic, you CAN work in an ER. I wonder if they are in need of volunteer fire fighters.

My prayers will be extra long tonight as I pray real hard that He will NEVER show me my strength through any harder trials than that have much to be thankful for that we are all safe, my mom and dad's house will be here when they get back, and that NOW I KNOW.