Random thoughts

Some random thoughts for the weekend...
First - I AM CRAZY!!! I thought that taking my four children to church, then to a party to celebrate Jennifer's son Joshua's baby dedication AND THEN going to Children's Place might be a good idea ( by myself, since Keith is training potential foster parents with The CALL.) All before naptime... Let me say, it could have been A LOT worse. Really, the only one who had a breakdown was Kailyn. And really, that was because she was VERY tired and wanted some sparkly shoes (flipflops with sparkles on them) like Evynn was getting. Bowden and Evynn were VERY well behaved. But I was chuckling to myself as I was strapping all four back into the car... why do I do things like this?

Second - WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? Yesterday, I took the four crazies to Krispy Kreme to make up for the fact that swim practice was cancelled. I had managed to get all four up, out the door and to the pool before 9am only to find that the coaches were not there and the lifeguard had called in sick so the volunteers could not run the practice. My children and I have gone to KK many times before and always had a nice time sitting, eating donuts and talking. Well it seems that KK has decided that we need TVs to entertain ourselves while eating there. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Why? Why do we need to have TVs everywhere we go? So instead of having a nice time with my children, I spent the time asking them to quit watching TV and eat their donuts. If I had wanted them to veg out in front of TV I would have eaten at home! Have we drifted so far down the gutter in our culture that people have to be zombies even when we go out to eat?

Next... I have come to realize that most of the things I correct my children for on a continual basis are things that I ALWAYS to... I am short tempered, I get angry when I do not get my way, I struggle with obedience, I roll my eyes and have a rude tone of voice.... the list could go on and on. God really convicted me this morning in church that I need to spend less time correcting the children and more time changing the things that I am doing. I am praying that God will continue to reveal the hipocracy in my life.

One more thing.... God was also speaking to me this morning on our focus. I can get so caught up in how I think things should be that I get stressed out and frustrated. But God has promised life and not just life but an abundant life. I used to look at peaceful Christians and think that these people were either faking or nuts but I realized this morning that maybe they are not. Maybe they have learned the key to the abundant life. Maybe they have learned how to be amidst the storm but not get windblown. This is what God wants for me. He wants me to be peaceful despite the circumstances, and not just in the big issues but in the every day issues.

Just some thoughts.....