My Trin is 4. 4 is a special age, there is a lot of make-believe and dresses and necklaces and laughter. Lately she has been making up her own knock-knock jokes and laughs hilariously at the punchline.
She is my "baby", my youngest child and she LOVES that position. When I want to mess with her I ask her how she would feel if we had another baby, if she became a big sister instead of the baby? Her reaction is a clear and loud, "No". Haha :)
We were outside the other day, she was playing in the yard, wearing her heels, and I was sitting on the patio. There is a downward slope to our yard and I'm not sure what she tripped over, but she fell in a grassless area under a large bush. When she fell, to add insult to injury, the earth's gravity pulled her face down even further than normal because of the slope.
I saw it happen and knew she was okay. No blood, no scrapes, really just her pride was hurt. She got up from the ground and with her arms stuck to her sides, she staggered over to me. From her face-down fall, she had dirt and tiny yellow flowers stuck to her face. She even had some dirt in her mouth. She didn't bother to reach up and brush it off or try to fix her situation at all, she just came straight to me.
As I cleaned her up and comfort her, I thought, THIS is what God wants. *When* (not if) we fall, let's not waste time or energy trying to brush the dirt off, clean ourselves up, dig the dirt out of our mouth -- let's get straight to God and let Him take care of us. Dirt and weeds and flowers stuck to our face and all.
Hebrews 4:14-16 MSG Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it slip through our fingers. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.
Hi. I have not updated this blog since 2011. Since then we have:
*moved twice
*went through a foreclosure
*had our vehicle repossessed
*nearly declared bankruptcy, but chose to do the hard thing and pay off debt
*oh, and I severely injured my knee
That's the bad stuff :) But there has been LOTS of good stuff, too. Why is it so much easier to list the bad??
*my marriage has grown stronger
*my love for my God has grown deeper and wider
*my friendships have grown sweeter
*my kids are growing up into sweet, smart, amazing, beautiful young women
*I *know* who I am and Whose I am more than ever
I read Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (pretty much) every morning. I love the voice she used to write it and well, since she says it was the voice of God speaking to her, that makes sense. I never read it without being affected in a good way by it.
Today's entry had the word "decimate" in it and that struck me so hard. It even made me go to the dictionary to look up the true meaning.
dec - i - mate -- verb -- "kill, destroy, or remove a large part of."
It said that the Light of Jesus "decimates the darkness". That is a powerful image because we all know how oppressive, frightful and overwhelming darkness is. It seems so strong. But it's not stronger than Him.
I've seen darkness. I've experienced "dark nights of the soul" and dark physical nights in which I thought dawn would never come. Things are always easier to handle when it's light out, I think.
God's Light decimating the darkness has been a comforting thought for me all day. When I think about the darkness that wants to devour people I love, and me as well, I will remember what I read.
"...and His life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." John 1:4-5
