Only 9 days left till Mom, Dad and family are coming home. I just wish that there were more hours in the day to get everything done that needs to be done before they get home. OK, I will say it so no one else has to, it’s my own fault that my day is so full. I was the one that took on three jobs. I know, but I still wish that there were more hours in the day!
Did you ever catch lighting bugs as a kid? I did and loved it until I got older and realized that I was catching BUGS! Then I stopped. Tonight my little nephews called me outside and asked ME to help them catch lighting bugs. I didn’t get any for them but I gave it my best effort just for them. I think that it is a gift to be around children. I love to help and care for them especially when they trust you, asking for your help and it isn’t a forced thing.
No, I’m not some sick person that messes with kids. I just treasure having them around and seeing how they live. They are so trusting and loving to every one. You might stink or not look good. They don’t care they just think you are cool for some reason all there own. Yes, they might say something to you about how you smell or what you are wearing, but they love you any way. Have you ever watched a child launch themselves at someone expecting that person to catch them? That is trust complete and untarnished by the harsh world what we live in. I think that this is why Jesus said that if we are to be saved we have to come to him as a little child. Totally trusting Him and taking our hands off by letting God have the complete control (yes, I’m on the hands off kick again. I will be there for a while.) Then there is the innocence that each child has that is taken away by the world as they grow older. Yet still, there is nothing in the world like having a child come up to you, through their arms around your neck and tell you that they love you. I treasure that every time it happens.
OK, just 10 days left till Mom, Dad and the gang come home!!!!!! I can’t wait
I am soooo tired!!!! I think that it might be because I haven’t been sleeping much since my family left on vacation Sunday. I can’t wait for them to come home and they have only been gone for 5 days. Yes, I am counting the days till they get home. They have 13 days left.
Until they get home I will be working myself to the bone at my three jobs. Yes, I said three! I was planning on taking the summer off after a long hard year of teaching and what do I do? I take on three jobs and give myself more to do then I had to do before. I think I am trying to work myself into an early grave. OK the first job was just the first 7 weeks of the summer. I was helping at a summer camp. Then I was asked to tutor 4 kids this summer two days a week. I know the kids and love to be around them and thought that this would be fun. Then this week I was asked to help take care of an older lady that my sister cares for. I think I lost my brain some were along the way. I do hope to find it again. Actually I think I need to learn that very small word that is very rare in my vocabulary. What is this wonderful word that would take care of me over booking of myself? Simply this, NO. Maybe some day I will learn it and I will get more sleep. Until that day I will just live on Dr. Pepper.
I was thinking the other night as I was reading my Bible that the Christian life is kind of like learning to sing. You have to learn how to get out of the way for the right thing to happen. In singing you have to learn how to let your vocal cords do what they were made to do instead of making them do what you think they should do. In the Christian life you have to learn how to get out of the way for God to do the things that He needs to do. I most of the time I like to try and do God’s job like finding out what I am suppose to do with my life and may other things that I can’t think of right now. I think that I like to do it this way because I think that God’s job is so much easier to do then mine. You see I am a person that has to be DOING something all the time. I don’t sit much and I love to help people as much as I can. The thing I love must in life is to be needed and when I am helping others I am needed. When it comes to my walk with God though I need to do what He has said in His word and that is to just trust Him, take my hands off and let Him have the control of what goes on. Every time I let Him have the controls I am blessed above what I could ever hope for. Yet I get to a cross rode in my life and what do I want to do? Take control of what is happening so, “Nothing goes wrong and gets messed up.” Boy is that all confused! The whole point is this, I want God’s blessing more then I want my way. To get that blessing I have to take my hands off my life, give Him control of everything and trust Him that He DOES know best for me and my life. He has to be the one that DOES the controlling for me to be blessed and truly happy.
I hate good byes!!!! This week is full of them too. My best friend is leaving to go back to her home for the summer. Then on Sunday we have a going away party for another good friend David. He is going into the Air Force. I will mess both of them. They are the ones that make me laugh all the time. David knows that I talk myself out of going out with my friends so he never takes no for an answer from me. I know that I wouldn’t do half of the things that I do with my friends if it wasn’t for him. He is my little big brother. Little because he is younger then me and bigger because be is like 6’ 4” or something like that. I think though that I will miss my best friend the most. Joy and I have done everything together for the last two years. She and I can read each others thoughts. I know what she is thinking most of the time and she knows what I am thinking most of the time. We have gone through some very heard things together these last two years. I am just glad that as of right now she will be coming back at the end of the summer.
Joy, I love you and will miss you so much. I will be praying for you that God will lead you each step of the way this summer.
David, I will also be praying for you as you inter this new stage of your life. Remember that I will always be here for you if ever you need anything. I love you think you are great.
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