"When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, "I used everything you gave me.""
~ Erma Bombeck
I'm just an ordinary mom living in Crazytown, USA. I am full of random thoughts, and need a place to write them down before I move on to yet another random thought. You never know, I might want to remember one of them someday!
I love the smell in the air, I love the changing colors of the leaves, and I cannot wait until the pumpkin patch opens! Picking apples off the trees, apple pie, hot apple cider, warm sweaters, hay rides, carving pumpkins.. hands down, my favorite time of the year. Shall I go on? And our girls are so blessed.. they think this is all for their birthdays! :)
My kids are so freaking cute, I can hardly stand it!
Madie: "sissie?"
Adrie: "wut." (note: not with a question mark and in the most exasperated and congested voice a child under the age of two can muster up - with an emphasis on the "t").
Madie: "sissie?"
again..
Adrie: "wut."
And it goes on from there. They are sharing a bed now - Adrie has officially graduated from the crib - so every night is a combination of sisterly squabbling and uncontrollable giggling or laughing. After a while, we give them a warning that "lights out" is in five minutes. Seldom do we have to remind them again, thanks to Madie being very prompt in this area. Lights go out, squabbling and/or giggling continues. Between Dave and I, whoever is closest, a warning is given in one word.. "Girls!" Adrie's choked up and congested voice (she has "the crud") and her new favorite word resound from the bedroom.
No.. that's not the bumper sticker I saw today.. I was behind a truck that had several stickers on it. One said "Love our Mother" with a picture of a planet next to it.. One said something along the lines of paying our teachers more and making the airforce hold a bake sale. Then there was another that made me chuckle..
"Heck is for people who don't believe in Gosh."
While it was humorous for a minute.. it had resounding truth if you replace "Heck" and "Gosh" with the words they are substituting.
John 3:16-18 16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
I promise to blog about something happy or funny.. one of these days. For now.. it's been a hard week. Events that were a little too close for comfort made national news this last week - a crazed man with a gun shot 8-10 people a week ago. Six of them are dead. One of them a police officer who was laid to rest today. My pastor is a chaplain for our county's sheriff's department, and he was requested to be by the family's side and tend to them during the funeral.
There were also a few other unsettling events in our county - a standoff close to our home and extremely close to Madie's school, and other bizarre happenings.. It's just been a little hard to sleep at night. What is happening to our town.. our county.. our state.. our nation.. our world?
There have also been other prayer requests this week that just make the load seem heavier. But is this all stuff that I'm supposed to carry? No.. I'm laying it down..
1 Peter 5:6-11 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. 10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 11 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
