Earrings!!

For about 8 months, we had a deal with Madyson that if she could go seven straight days without a fit, we would let her pierce her ears. Is that bribery? I don't know, but if you know what it was like for her you will understand why it took her eight months to do it. She has come so far in the last two years. Self-control and being able to regulate her emotions were skills that she did not have at all. God has done a tremendous healing in her body, heart, and spirit. So before Christmas we got her ears pierced!!
She had her ears pierced at one time before we got her. They weren't done properly and it was a very painful memory for her. As we got them pierced, she was scared. Mostly because of the past experience. After the first ear, she wanted to look at it. She began to cry. I knew what she was thinking, but the lady did not. She asked her if she was ok. Mady began to tell her how the earring covered up the old hole and covered up the scar of her past that was on her body. As the lady pierced mady's other ear. Mady began to share her story. By the time she was done the lady was in tears. There is nothing more amazing than to hear a six year old girl tell a perfect stranger how God rescued her and is healing all her scars.
She can now change them out and is loving it!! It had been like a bond lifted off her. I honestly can't remember the last screaming fit she had and that's a miracle!! So when I say God is healing kids, He really is!!