Okay, so its Friday and I got my darling daughter up for school. Usually I begin this day by excitedly announcing that "IT'S FRIDAY!!! NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!!" To which darling daughter replies in a rather disgusted tone, "Then we have to go to church!!"
Have I mentioned that Lindsey doesn't like church? We're not sure why and it is so hard for me to take because I have loved church all of my life -- I don't remember a time when I didn't love church! Lindsey loves Jesus, but for whatever reason getting her to church is like pulling a tooth. Once she is there, she is fine and has a good time! But getting there is NOT half the fun -- it is sometimes an all out battle!
But this morning? Well, this morning we made a baby step in the right direction. This morning when I made my declaration that today is the last day of school for the week and tomorrow we get to sleep in, she replied not in a disgusted tone but in a reluctantly joyful tone, "Then we have to go to church...and I like church...a little bit. Okay, I like church alot."
And I think I'm well on my way to having another "PTL" entry in my prayer journal!!!
Getting Lindsey to like church even a little bit is a huge GodStop -- something that could only be observed in His presence!
Blessings,
Dori
Friday, February 29, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Thankful Thursday
With the celebration of Valentine's Day yesterday, I simply forgot about Thankful Thursday, but I don't WANT to forget about Thankful Thursday! :) How can I forget to be extra thankful on this particular Thursday, when the day is all about love and I've been blessed beyond measure with an abundance of it?
On Valentine's Day 16 years ago, I was beyond over the top with excitement. I was sporting a mighty fine diamond engagement ring on my left hand, freshly placed there by the man of my dreams the night before. And yet I was spending this day alone because he was attending the funeral of his grandmother who had just passed away. I remember thinking over the next couple of days before I would see him again that maybe it was all a dream...maybe I had imagined that he had chosen me to spend the rest of his life with. But it wasn't a dream and I hadn't made it up! I was going to be married to God's best for me -- the one I had waited a lifetime to meet.
Six months later we walked an aisle, said the vows, gave a kiss and off we went! A few days at the beach and then back to the reality of life. I can honestly say that our good days have far exceeded the number of bad days we have had. Perhaps my husband said it best last night in the prayer around our dinner table. With our sweet son on one side and our precious daughter on the other, he thanked God for our love...an everlasting love.
The interesting thing about an everlasting love is that it is not dependent on the day's events or circumstances. It is not based on past failures, words left unsaid or mistakes made. It is fueled by the covenant that we share and the commitment we have made. It is what makes even the good days better and it is the wind that opens your sails on the days when your feel less than qualified to fulfill your calling of wife and mother. It is the constant current underneath everything that happens in your life, making the improbable possible and the mundane miraculous. Sometimes it is loud and demonstrative and sometimes it is in the quietness of ordinary days that it seems most evident.
So, for Thankful Thursday, I'm most thankful for the love of my life -- my precious husband. I told him in my card to him yesterday that only God could take two people capable of going two different directions, bring them together and make something so beautiful -- so blessed! An amazing and everlasting love, indeed!
All this and Jesus, too!
Dori
On Valentine's Day 16 years ago, I was beyond over the top with excitement. I was sporting a mighty fine diamond engagement ring on my left hand, freshly placed there by the man of my dreams the night before. And yet I was spending this day alone because he was attending the funeral of his grandmother who had just passed away. I remember thinking over the next couple of days before I would see him again that maybe it was all a dream...maybe I had imagined that he had chosen me to spend the rest of his life with. But it wasn't a dream and I hadn't made it up! I was going to be married to God's best for me -- the one I had waited a lifetime to meet.
Six months later we walked an aisle, said the vows, gave a kiss and off we went! A few days at the beach and then back to the reality of life. I can honestly say that our good days have far exceeded the number of bad days we have had. Perhaps my husband said it best last night in the prayer around our dinner table. With our sweet son on one side and our precious daughter on the other, he thanked God for our love...an everlasting love.
The interesting thing about an everlasting love is that it is not dependent on the day's events or circumstances. It is not based on past failures, words left unsaid or mistakes made. It is fueled by the covenant that we share and the commitment we have made. It is what makes even the good days better and it is the wind that opens your sails on the days when your feel less than qualified to fulfill your calling of wife and mother. It is the constant current underneath everything that happens in your life, making the improbable possible and the mundane miraculous. Sometimes it is loud and demonstrative and sometimes it is in the quietness of ordinary days that it seems most evident.
So, for Thankful Thursday, I'm most thankful for the love of my life -- my precious husband. I told him in my card to him yesterday that only God could take two people capable of going two different directions, bring them together and make something so beautiful -- so blessed! An amazing and everlasting love, indeed!
All this and Jesus, too!
Dori
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