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I was filming myself when you see the black picture come up. I could see me when I replayed the video back on the camera, but not when the video is on here. Like Tim says, "No second takes." But that's OK. I had just woken up, and looked a fright anyway. My emotion is pure joy, that God takes care of us each day. This morning's video brought to mind Luke 12:22-24 Then Jesus said to his disciples; "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!

I encourage you to read the rest of what Jesus has to tell us about worry. (Luke 12:25:34) In trying times like we have today, it is such a comfort knowing we can rest in God's Word.

Just Another Manic Monday

It's not really manic here. Just put an old Bangles song in my title, because it fit with it being Monday.

Nothing really worth writing about over here. Just another day. I guess that's a good thing. Nobody is sick, or hurt. So much for nobody hurt... updated about 5 minutes later, than when I typed this. Just got a call from school that Phoebe hit her head on the slide, but is ok. They checked her pupils out to see if they were dilating, (they are) and she refused an ice pack and wants to go back to class, but they need to call us and let us know what's going on.

Nice and quiet. The T.V. is off, Abby is playing in the basement. Perry is working in his office in the basement. I did some cleaning, then talked to a friend/cousin-in-law for over an hour.

And after stepping on the scale this morning, SHOCKED with what I saw, I will be walking on my treadmill shortly, and I will NEVER eat again. OK, so I will eat again, but I am going to try to eat healthier. Good grief! C'mon how does one gain 4 pounds in a weekend? How can those few pieces of cinnamon bread among other breads and fries, and burgers, and other assorted junk put 4 pounds on me? :o/ Ugh.

Amanda at The House With The Blue Door received my Pay It Forward gifts, and now wants to pay it forward herself. Like me, she doesn't get a lot of blog traffic, so if anyone wants to receive some great little gifts, or knows somebody who does, she wants to Pay It Forward to you/somebody. Swing on over to her house with the blue door, (her blog) and sign up.

I was just staring at a cute little address book that I have next to me, and it has a bible scripture on it that reads...Encourage one another daily...Hebrews 3:13. So here is my encouragement for you today...


Psalm 34:4 - I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.


Wow, that says a lot! We seek, He answers, and delivers. We can pile up a lot of fears in our life. Just knowing that God can deliver us from ALL of them is encouraging.

Seek Him today. May He bless all of you. I know I feel blessed.

Did I sign up for this?

Sometimes it's so hard to be a parent. And I don't mean when the kids are naughty and not listening to me. It's the heartbreak that parents have to go through.

Like this morning.

A few weeks ago, Phoebe's 1st grade class had a speech meet, where they had to memorize a bible verse or poem and say it in front of the class. They also had to explain a little about the verse or poem. They do this, I suppose, to get ready for the real speech meet that takes place in the higher grades, that include different schools in the area.
Phoebe chose Ephesians 6:1-3. She did very well at the meet and received 100 points out of 100.

A few days ago, she told me she was selected to say her bible verse at chapel this morning.

Back to this morning. I told Phoebe I would be at chapel to see her say her verse in front of the whole church. Well, the Kindergarten thru 5th grade anyway. (Scary to me!)

Abby wasn't feeling well. She has a cough. A gross, productive cough that she doesn't spit out, but rather swallows. Ick. But, I had to take her, and I was going to slip out of chapel as soon as Phoebe was finished saying her verse.

We drop Phoebe off at 8:10, go to the chapel and wait there for 20 minutes. Chapel starts at 8:30. Abby is fine, just laying in my arms. Chapel starts, we sit through 15 minutes of worship songs. Abby is fine, just lying in my arms. The speaker starts speaking, talking for about 10 minutes, when Abby tells me she has to throw up. WHAT! You've been fine for 45 minutes. Not one cough at all, and now you tell me you have to throw up. No! Hold it until Phoebe is done. She should be speaking any minute now.

Of course I didn't say that to her. I whisked her out in to the hallway and tried to get to the bathroom. Too late. What does a mother do when there is no place to throw up in to? Why she holds her hand to the sick girls mouth, so she can puke in it. Oh the joy to have a load of puked up snot deposited in your hand. Yup, all the crap she coughed up ended up in her stomach and she threw it back up. Some in my hand, and the rest she held in her mouth until we got to a toilet.

What a good girl she is. She actually listened to me when I told her to hold it in her mouth. I didn't really mean she actually had to hold it in her mouth, but that's what came out of my mouth, and she listened. Ha!

So we are in the bathroom, she's getting rid of her puke in the toilet and I'm washing off my puked on hand. She cleans up, and we head out, back to church.

I open my ears and hear a little girls voice speaking. Nooooooo, that can't be Phoebe. I run to the nearest door, leaving my sick child behind. I do hear Abby coming up in the rear, her big clunky boots pounding away.

I see Phoebe up on stage, behind the microphone, and this is what I hear...
"that you may enjoy long life on the earth. Ephesians 6, verses 1 thru 3. Audience claps.

WAHHHHHHH, I was there only for the last 9 words of the 41 word scripture. I wanted to cry. Did she see that I was gone? Did she think I ditched her? Is this a start of her not trusting me?

My heart broke twice this morning. Once, because I don't like to see my kids sick and feeling miserable, and the other time because I felt I wasn't there for Phoebe, and be her loudest clapper.

I know Phoebe will understand why I wasn't in the room to hear her, but it will take her being a mother, to understand the heartbreak I am feeling. All because we love our children.

Wordless Wednesday with words

If I kept this a Wordless Wednesday with no words, you would be seeing Ken with Barbie's undies on his head. You give a little laugh, and then maybe your mind wanders elsewhere about the undies on Ken's head, like mine did. As an adult, in this age of sin, most of us would think something sexual... maybe, or kinky, or gross in a humorous kind of way. That's what my mind did. But then the Holy Spirit reminded me of something in the Bible. I knew there was a verse somewhere about the innocence of a child or something like that. I got out my Concordance and looked all over and finally found it under the word, child. It is in Luke 18:17. This is Jesus talking. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it.


I asked Abigail what the undies on Ken's head meant. I knew it was going to be very innocent and childlike. She said Ken was being Santa, and that's all she could find for his beard.

How clever. Why couldn't I think that way? Nooooo, I went the perverted route. I know that my name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, but I'm sure God will have a mention of my, not so innocent thoughts.

I know we are supposed to mature in our faith, but we still need to approach Christ with childlike attitudes of acceptance, faith, and trust. We as parents do our best to raise our children in truth, and our children have attitudes of acceptance, faith and trust in us. We were the same with our parents. Why does that childlike quality end? Because of sin and evil in this world. But those who accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior are not of this world anymore. 2Cor. 5:17 Therefore. if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come. Also, Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will. Well, amen to that!

So, am I approaching Christ with a childlike attitude? Not always. But because Ken had Barbie's undies on his head, and I got that un-Christlike thought in my head, and the Holy Spirit convicted me with a verse in the Bible, I now will practice, approaching Christ with a childlike attitude. Because to do anything good and right takes practice. It took my child, playing innocently, to teach me something about the kingdom of heaven. Thanks Abs.

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