Parenting can be so muddally

My kids have made my life so interesting.
They do equal amounts of draining energy and inspiring energy but whichever it is it on each particular day it is the most amazing thing in life to be a parent. I can not imagine life without them as hard as it is some days.
They make me laugh. I have one daughter who has an opinion about everything(realistically -almost everything)--- hmmm I wonder where she picked that up??? She rants and her rants are hilarious, passionately spoken and very real to her. She comes up with several everyday and she has agreed to allow me to record some of them on video. I am very pleased about this. She has no idea how funny this will all be in a number of years... is that mean? Maybe but in that case I'm also terrible because I don't only record them but I kind of egg her on, it's kind of like cheering for the rant....  She says that after giving a good rant she feels energized, how can that be bad for her? Seems I am doing her a favor. There must be something that happens in the brain when she verbally releases all that's going on in her head. It's her way of managing the things she finds frustrating. I hope it's not some bad habit I am encouraging ... wow if that's the case then I am mean, terrible and bad...eekkk. Parenting can be so muddally(I am not even sure if muddally is a word.)

The 'F' word

"FIRE! FIRE!" ---this is the one thing you never want to hear your child yell as they run into the room.
We had a fire in the house yesterday; I was on the phone in the living room when some carelessly placed papers caught fire from a candle in the kitchen. Thank God the kids were at the table when it started on the counter and Joelle noticed the flames. She ran to get me and I dashed for the kitchen. I wapped it out with a tea towel. In the end no harm was done; just a huge lesson learned.
Be careful with candles and paper!!!
Then could hardly believe it while baking some cookies today I almost started another fire--- I found a stray receipt that had been caught in the oven door, it was almost charcoal!!! 

promises in John 15

Promises in John 15

• Remain in Jesus and Jesus will remain in me
• I can be epic if I remain in Jesus
• I will be epic if I remain in Jesus
• If I remain in Jesus he will give me whatever I ask for
• Jesus chose me to be epic
• The world will persecute me because it persecuted Jesus

Things that make you go hmmm...

As we were singing a song in church today a line in the song made me have a 'hmmm' moment.
The line was something like '.... Jesus just clothed in righteousness...." .... just righteousness? ..... hmmm ...... nothing else? A picture of heaven I've never thought of. But why not? Adam and Eve were naked in their perfect world until they sinned, before sin they had no shame..... will heaven be like the garden before sin? ..... this just seems so awkward.....Things that make you go hmmmm.

Promises

                     in John 14

• God has a place with many rooms
• Jesus is preparing this place for me
• Jesus will come back for me
• I will be with Jesus in that place
• I can go to God through Jesus
• I know God because I know Jesus
• I have seen God because I have seen Jesus
• I can do what Jesus did
• I can do greater things than Jesus did
• Jesus will do whatever I ask in his name
• God will give me the Spirit of truth as a counselor
• I know the counselor
• The counselor is with me
• The counselor is in me
• Jesus will not leave me as an orphan
• I will live after death
• I will realize that Jesus is with the Father
• I will realize that I am in Jesus
• I will realize that Jesus is in me
• Jesus will show himself to me as I love him
• The father will love me and make his home with me as I love him
• God will send the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit will teach me all things
• The Holy Spirit will remind me of  things Jesus has said
• Jesus leaves peace with me
• Jesus gives peace to me

Travellers - Be ye warned and take heed - PACK

I'm not making any promises but who knows, I have good feelings about blogging again.

I’m going to Africa in 33 days! I’m so excited.

 I had my 2nd dream last night of how the departure may go down….. I think these are warning dreams. This is how it went - Like a good passenger I was good and early for my flight. Ben was waiting there with me to see me off and we were waiting in the lobby of the airport for the rest of the team to show up. The trouble was I hadn't packed yet, at first I sat there thinking about it and slowly letting the reality of this situation sink in. I showed up at the airport with nothing. Nothing! Early and waiting but I hadn't packed! I had one bag with me. I looked in the bag, Ben looked in the bag too. “You didn’t pack?!!”I had no clothes, none of the stuff we promised for the kid, no passport and no ticket! I saw we had just enough time to get home and get back before the flight left, so we took off for home; a 1 hour drive each way if you speed. I got home grabbed the ticket and the passport and got back to the airport. Upon arriving back at the airport it dawned on me that I forgot to get clothes while at home. DOH! But there was no time to go back home now so I quickly devise a plan. I'd go ask someone for their clothing. There was a hotel at the airport so I walk into a room were I saw a house keeper cleaning after a guest had left. The room conveniently had clothes scattered about. I begged her to let me take some of the clothing that the last woman left behind--- So weird, who leaves clothes behind?  I don’t know the answer to that but this is how my dream went; the room had clothing laying everywhere. The cleaning lady finally agreed that I could choose some of the items since they'd be going into the donation box anyway, so I started looking for the right clothing; I sized up a pare of jeans,  almost but too small. (They would have fit me last year).  Another and another, all the clothes were too small. Nothing was going right and by now I was very anxious that the team would be waiting for me. Everything was going wrong. I started to get suspicious at this point, do you know what I mean; the point in the dream where reality starts to knock on the dream door and even though it feels so real there is a niggle that it just might not be. The brain says “Wait a second hear. This is all too, too, whatever, it can't be real” While I was thinking this I started walking back to the airport were the team was waiting for me. I started imagining how I was going to face them and tell them what a loser I was for not packing…. But just then I was saved by "hey this is just a dream" real brain kicks in …. such relief......This is just a dream! Yeah!  I still have 33 days to pack!

Travellers - Be ye warned and take heed -PACK!