One night Joshua and I were watching Veggie Tales when this song came on. It made us laugh...a lot. I found it on You Tube today, and thought I'd share.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Life with Josh
Last night I came home from work, and Joshua, our five year old, immediately started whining. He wanted his friend Kaleb to come over. I said, “let’s wait ‘til after supper and then we’ll see”. Evidently, that answer was not the one he wanted because from that point on, literally every five minutes Josh would ask, “did you decide yet? Can Kaleb come over?” voiced with A LOT of “whine”.
So having stored in my memory bank a conversation that I had overheard Josh having with a friend of his once, a conversation where Josh said something to this effect, “I whine until I get my way.” I said to him, “if you whine about this one more time, then the answer is no.” Yeah you guessed it, five minutes later I said “no”. Which in turn was cause for more whining.
He was about to drive me (and the rest of the household) nuts, so I thought I’d try to get his mind off of it by saying, “let’s all go in town and go for a walk”. The boys, Josh and Will, did not want to go, and I thought “that’s even better”, so we left them at home.
So, Denny, Maren, Merle (my mom) and I all went in town to go for a walk. We parked our van and had walked about five blocks when my cell phone rang. It was Will, who says with much distress, “MOM, Josh shoved a reeses pieces up his nose and we can’t get it out. I could hear Joshua both screaming and gagging in the background. I told Will to have him blow his nose, and it still didn’t come out. So Denny ran back to get the van to go home, while I commenced having a conversation with Joshua. I said, “Josh, can you breathe okay?” and he could. So I said, “don’t cry, don’t gag. Your dad’s on his way home, just be still” and he calmed down. Then I said “Josh, how did you get a reeses pieces up your nose?” to which he replied, “it was an accident.” I thought to myself, “what, like you threw one up in the air and tried to catch it in your mouth, and it went down your nose hole instead?”
In the meantime, I had told Will to go get his Aunt Darla who lives next door, while I stayed on the phone with Josh. While I was still on the phone, and before Denny got home, Darla got to Josh and had him cover the clean nostril and blow out the other side, and the reeses pieces came out quite nicely into Darla’s hand…YUK!!
In hindsight, I’m thinking the evening would have gone a lot smoother had we just called Kaleb in the beginning and had him come over!
So having stored in my memory bank a conversation that I had overheard Josh having with a friend of his once, a conversation where Josh said something to this effect, “I whine until I get my way.” I said to him, “if you whine about this one more time, then the answer is no.” Yeah you guessed it, five minutes later I said “no”. Which in turn was cause for more whining.
He was about to drive me (and the rest of the household) nuts, so I thought I’d try to get his mind off of it by saying, “let’s all go in town and go for a walk”. The boys, Josh and Will, did not want to go, and I thought “that’s even better”, so we left them at home.
So, Denny, Maren, Merle (my mom) and I all went in town to go for a walk. We parked our van and had walked about five blocks when my cell phone rang. It was Will, who says with much distress, “MOM, Josh shoved a reeses pieces up his nose and we can’t get it out. I could hear Joshua both screaming and gagging in the background. I told Will to have him blow his nose, and it still didn’t come out. So Denny ran back to get the van to go home, while I commenced having a conversation with Joshua. I said, “Josh, can you breathe okay?” and he could. So I said, “don’t cry, don’t gag. Your dad’s on his way home, just be still” and he calmed down. Then I said “Josh, how did you get a reeses pieces up your nose?” to which he replied, “it was an accident.” I thought to myself, “what, like you threw one up in the air and tried to catch it in your mouth, and it went down your nose hole instead?”
In the meantime, I had told Will to go get his Aunt Darla who lives next door, while I stayed on the phone with Josh. While I was still on the phone, and before Denny got home, Darla got to Josh and had him cover the clean nostril and blow out the other side, and the reeses pieces came out quite nicely into Darla’s hand…YUK!!
In hindsight, I’m thinking the evening would have gone a lot smoother had we just called Kaleb in the beginning and had him come over!
Monday, June 25, 2007
The Serious Side of She Speaks
“Wow”…that’s what I have to say regarding this year’s She Speaks conference. The conference is put on by Proverbs 31 Ministries. If you’ve never heard of them, I encourage you to check them out at www.proverbs31.org. I know that these women aren’t perfect, because none of us are, but I am so amazed at what a great example they set of being “servant leaders”.
Last year when I attended the conference, I went simply because God said “go”. I really had no idea why I was going. The conference was for speakers and writers, and though I’d done a little bit of speaking, and a little bit of writing, I was primarily a worship leader. So, last year, I spent most of the time walking around asking God, “why am I here?” Even so, what I left the conference with last year was an extreme love for these ladies. Colossians 1:8 “He is the one who told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you” NLT
I have written in earlier posts telling about how I feel called to this ministry. What I haven’t put on this blog is that things have been set in motion for me to join Proverbs 31 Ministries as a worship leader. I guess God did have a plan when he sent this worship leader to a speaker and writer’s conference.
This year my attitude was different. I still went because God said “go”, but this year I was excited about seeing people. I was excited about seeing those whom I had established relationships with. I did the intermediate speakers track, and I wasn’t nearly as nervous this year primarily because I didn’t care. That was the attitude that Kathy and I both had…we truly didn’t care. I don’t mean I don’t care as in “I could care less about this”. But I don’t care as in “whatever you do Lord is fine.” I don’t care as in “it’s all about you Jesus, and I trust you with my life.”
My favorite part of this year was a visit to the prayer room. Paula, Sara, Kathy and I decided to go into the prayer room. We thought we were going to go in there and pray together regarding a Bible study that we feel led to do this fall. But when we got in there, it was very quiet and people were sitting around praying quietly by themselves, and we didn’t want to disturb them. So after prayerfully walking around the room for a while, we each took a seat, and prayed by ourselves. I really thought that I would just sit down, and pray briefly, and get back up to go to the hotel room to rest. Instead, what happened was, I found myself pouring out my heart and saying, “all I want is you God, I don’t care about the anything else…I just want you.” And I got Him. Powerfully. Strongly. Lovingly. I got Him. I wept at the awesomeness of His presence as HE filled me with His love. Amazing.
I sat there for what seemed to be a long time, though it probably wasn’t. I left the prayer room, but I didn’t leave God…the time with God continued in our hotel room. His loving presence was so strong that I could not stop crying…I cried for the next hour, as He continued to consume me with His love…
Isn’t it great to know that you don’t have to go to a Christian Conference hundreds of miles away to be filled with His love…to experience God…but that we can do that right here…right now…
Last year when I attended the conference, I went simply because God said “go”. I really had no idea why I was going. The conference was for speakers and writers, and though I’d done a little bit of speaking, and a little bit of writing, I was primarily a worship leader. So, last year, I spent most of the time walking around asking God, “why am I here?” Even so, what I left the conference with last year was an extreme love for these ladies. Colossians 1:8 “He is the one who told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you” NLT
I have written in earlier posts telling about how I feel called to this ministry. What I haven’t put on this blog is that things have been set in motion for me to join Proverbs 31 Ministries as a worship leader. I guess God did have a plan when he sent this worship leader to a speaker and writer’s conference.
This year my attitude was different. I still went because God said “go”, but this year I was excited about seeing people. I was excited about seeing those whom I had established relationships with. I did the intermediate speakers track, and I wasn’t nearly as nervous this year primarily because I didn’t care. That was the attitude that Kathy and I both had…we truly didn’t care. I don’t mean I don’t care as in “I could care less about this”. But I don’t care as in “whatever you do Lord is fine.” I don’t care as in “it’s all about you Jesus, and I trust you with my life.”
My favorite part of this year was a visit to the prayer room. Paula, Sara, Kathy and I decided to go into the prayer room. We thought we were going to go in there and pray together regarding a Bible study that we feel led to do this fall. But when we got in there, it was very quiet and people were sitting around praying quietly by themselves, and we didn’t want to disturb them. So after prayerfully walking around the room for a while, we each took a seat, and prayed by ourselves. I really thought that I would just sit down, and pray briefly, and get back up to go to the hotel room to rest. Instead, what happened was, I found myself pouring out my heart and saying, “all I want is you God, I don’t care about the anything else…I just want you.” And I got Him. Powerfully. Strongly. Lovingly. I got Him. I wept at the awesomeness of His presence as HE filled me with His love. Amazing.
I sat there for what seemed to be a long time, though it probably wasn’t. I left the prayer room, but I didn’t leave God…the time with God continued in our hotel room. His loving presence was so strong that I could not stop crying…I cried for the next hour, as He continued to consume me with His love…
Isn’t it great to know that you don’t have to go to a Christian Conference hundreds of miles away to be filled with His love…to experience God…but that we can do that right here…right now…
Sunday, June 24, 2007
At The Airport
Kathy and I are at the airport, we got rid of the other two Marshallites (Paula and Sara), we were glad to see them go, they were wearing us out :-)...
You think I'm joking, but I'm not. I don't think I've laughed that hard for two whole days EVER!
There's much that we could share about this weekend, but we'll do that later. Right now, we just thought we'd waste a little time on the blog since we're just sitting around at the airport.
But...we're confident that God's up to something!!!
You think I'm joking, but I'm not. I don't think I've laughed that hard for two whole days EVER!
There's much that we could share about this weekend, but we'll do that later. Right now, we just thought we'd waste a little time on the blog since we're just sitting around at the airport.
But...we're confident that God's up to something!!!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
She Speaks Conference
To My Dearest Fellow Blogsters,
I would hereby greatly appreciate your prayers for safe travel as Kathy Lay and I make our way to Charlotte, North Carolina for the annual Proverbs 31 Ministries She Speaks conference.
We fly out tomorrow morning at approximately 8am ET. There's a whole bunch that I would like to say about this, but I have two ball games to attend tonight, I need to pack, and I need to review my talks that I have to give this weekend. So why am I on this blog? I guess because it's not game time yet, and I don't feel like packing or reviewing the talks. :-) I'll be regretting that at about midnight tonight! Denny just asked me what we were eating for supper...oops, hadn't even thought about that!
Kathy and I will be meeting up with Paula Sprigg and Sara Boyer....woo hoo! They left for Charlotte today. They're attending the "women's ministry" portion of the conference. Oh yeah, AND Paula started a blog you can find it here!
Anyway, back to the original point...we would greatly appreciate your prayers!
Now I'm gonna go nuke some corn dogs!
I would hereby greatly appreciate your prayers for safe travel as Kathy Lay and I make our way to Charlotte, North Carolina for the annual Proverbs 31 Ministries She Speaks conference.
We fly out tomorrow morning at approximately 8am ET. There's a whole bunch that I would like to say about this, but I have two ball games to attend tonight, I need to pack, and I need to review my talks that I have to give this weekend. So why am I on this blog? I guess because it's not game time yet, and I don't feel like packing or reviewing the talks. :-) I'll be regretting that at about midnight tonight! Denny just asked me what we were eating for supper...oops, hadn't even thought about that!
Kathy and I will be meeting up with Paula Sprigg and Sara Boyer....woo hoo! They left for Charlotte today. They're attending the "women's ministry" portion of the conference. Oh yeah, AND Paula started a blog you can find it here!
Anyway, back to the original point...we would greatly appreciate your prayers!
Now I'm gonna go nuke some corn dogs!
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