I really, really, really wish I had pictures to go along with this post… it’s just not going to have the same effect without pictures. But, typically, I didn’t think to grab my camera!
In case you’ve ever wondered, the quickest way to freak out your friends and make them run away screaming is to invite them over on chicken butchering day. Boys love it… girls, not so much! I asked my friends daughter if she wanted to be a farmer, she just looked at me with wide eyes and said “Not today”
When my babies were babies I would often spend hours rocking and singing to them. One of my favorites to sing to them was “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand”.
There are many things I hope to teach to my boys… and some they take to easier than others. But with all the worldly knowledge I try to impart to them, if I fail to teach them to trust in God… I’ve failed them. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?
The words to this song are my prayer for my children.
Time is filled with swift transition, not of earth unmoved can stand. Build your hopes on things eternal. Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Trust in Him who will not leave you, whatsoever years may bring. If by earthly friends forsaken, still more closely to Him cling.
Covet not this world’s vain riches, that so rapidly decay. Seek to gain the heavenly treasure, that will never fade away.
A friend of mine is getting ready to lead a Dave Ramsey class so I borrowed one of his books from another friend to look through… It was looking pretty grim until I got to the “Keeping Up With The Jones’” section, I passed that one with flying colors.
I was to rate these as to how important they are to me… how important is my “image”…
1. Paying for dinner with a gold or platinum credit card – don’t have one so not to important
2. Getting complimented on my brand of watch – don’t wear one, again not to important
3. Wearing designer clothes – wouldn’t even know where to go to buy designer clothes, nope not to important
4. Living in a nice neighborhood – I live in a logging camp scattered with farm implements, that’s all I have to say about that
5. Having people be envious of my car – ok, admit it, y’all are all totally jealous of the flatbed
I guess there’s always a silver lining… we may be broke but at least we’re not prideful!!
When the kids are quietly entertaining themselves… playing checkers, building puzzles, legos… do you make them stop in order to finish school??
Am I a total slacker if I’m leaning towards letting them play??
A few days ago Jacob and I were alone in the living room when I heard him whispering to himself –
“poop” giggle
“pooper poop” giggle
“poop pooping poop” giggle giggle
“pooping pooping pooper poop… I said poop” giggle giggle
*sigh*… Boys!!!
I’ve been pondering choices the last few days…. what brings a person to the place that they would choose destruction for their house?
I’d like to be able to sit back and judge harshly and say that will never be me, or point to one choice as the one that made everything go downhill… but I’ve fought this fight long enough to know it’s never that simple.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
“Choose you this day”… every day, every minute, we’re making choices. Will we choose to serve God or will we choose to let sin reign?
It’s easy to feel like we’re ‘getting away with it’ when we don’t face immediate consequences for our sin. Then, before we know it, that one little sin that we thought we had control of grows and has control of us.
Gal 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Choices… we either choose corruption or we choose life everlasting. There is no door number three.
I end with this thought…
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
