This is from a devotion I was reading this morning.. really good stuff..
"Right now, I want you to use your imagination. The Bible tells us in Ephesians that we are "in Christ" and Christ is "in us." It also tells us that we are seated "in heavenly places" and "transferred to the kingdom of Christ." Picture yourself sitting right beside Jesus under a spreading oak tree. Perhaps His arm is around your shoulder and your head is resting on his chest. You can feel the beating of His heart against your cheek and your head moves with the rise and fall of His breathing. With His other hand, He strokes your head and immediately knows how many hairs are on your head. His breath warms your skin as it brushes past your face. Imagine Him looking into your eyes and knowing your innermost being and meeting your gaze with a warm, affirming smile reassuring you of His love and care.
Now tell me, as you imagine yourself in the presence of Jesus, how anxious do you feel? How rejected do you feel? How worried about tomorrow are you? You may be thinking, "Yes, Sharon. I feel at peace in that scene. But that's not reality." Dear sister, that is the greater reality. No matter what you are going through today, Jesus is right there with you. So maybe you just need to sit down and be quiet for a while."
Okay so great weekend we had just start off with that.
Friday night we had pizza night and a family movie, we watch Astro Boy it was pretty cute, and it held Tyler’s attention most of the time. We had a picnic on the couch and made an event out of the night. Friday night after we put the boys to bed we spent the rest of night trying to pick out what song I was going to sing for the MGT, the try outs are a week from Friday…!!! So I settled on Free Fallin’ from Tom Petty, and we went to bed.
The next morning I was trying to sing Free Fallin while taking a shower and trying to “switch it up” to be mine.. and well it just did not work out… but thought nothing really of it.. and moved on getting ready… So I went to Baby’s R Us, with boys in tow, and a Jennifer a dear friend, to get some gifts for Cooper, Reyna’s baby boy. That was a good time picking out the presents and looking at all the CUTE stuff they had for babies and kids, and you would be proud those of you out there, I did not buy anything for Tyler or Parker.. Although, Tyler was pointing at everything saying, “ Look Momma, this is cute…” But I escaped that trap and did not get anything for the boys.. YEAH Me… OH.. on the way to the store we saw that there will be a Freebirds coming in the Allen Village.. those of you that know this place.. don’t have to explain.. those that don’t.. it is like Chipotle but MUCH better (Jennifer P, you know it is ;) ) So that was really exciting for me.. yeah I know.. sad right? Oh well.. then after dropping Jennifer off at her house I dropped off some blankets for Heather’s dog… and then I was off to Wal-Mart well thing was Tyler fell asleep… so .. I thought okay.. now what.. so I went to Sonic got a coke than called my cuz to see how she was.. we talked about stubborn boys, and how I am getting old.. with the blaring music by me.. but come on it was shaking my car too… so.. yeah… then after that I went home parked the car and have a great conversation with my neighbor, soon not to be… booo boo… and then Tyler finally woke up about an hour after that. When he woke up Joshua told me he needed something from Wal-Mart a 6inch wood screw.. umm yeah right.. what?? Sending me to the store to get something like that.. good luck.. so Amanda came with me.. well on our way… we started talking about IKEA…and we make a spontaneous call to just go there and then to Wal-Mart.. well we also thought we would go to Anna to take a look at a house, so after that we headed to IKEA for the IKEA experience.. as I told Amanda this is an event.. (I think she thought I was crazy… ) but guess what it was… it took us a few hours to go through it and.. get this.. drum roll please….. NEITHER ONE OF US BOUGHT ANYTHING!!! Did we want to .. umm heck yeah..!!! I got some great ideas on how to cover my old pillows at home and so going to do that once I have the extra $$. It was really fun and I loved spending some girl time with Amanda.. good times.. so then on our way to Wal-Mart Amanda got a call that she had missed an appointment so I had to run her home.. well since we live next to each other, I called Joshua and said, “Hey coming to get you we are going to Wal-Mart.” So I dropped A off and picked up J and we were off to Wal-Mart… on the search for a 6 inch wood screw and Easter eggs for the Easter egg hunt this Saturday, well we did find the eggs and plus.. but not wood screw…. So we headed home had some dinner and watched some TV, I had some Krizty time (did my nails and just chilled) , I picked another song, since Free Fallin was not working out, I moved to Lisa Loeb “Stay” I think that will really be a better fit… now I just need to step up on the practicing and get to it…. After I picked the song, yet again… I was off to bed..
Then yesterday hit… and let me fess up here, although I have been out of my rut it seems I have made myself really busy…. Too busy for quite time and just to be still.. so I can tell something was way off.. well Sunday morning was a tough time Joshua went early to church for media and I was at home with kids… Tyler was in A LOT of time outs.. and we had good and bad moments…. So I got us all to church in a frenzy.. checking in the kids I ran into someone I knew they told me to smile.. I did.. and do you know… they said ,”Now that was the fakest smile I have ever seen.” I was totally taken back but laughed it off.. but inside I was crushed, and thought you know what maybe that was… so I headed to the sanctuary and it was weird, every song, event, and all I was in tears.. I was just a ball of water…. God was really dealing with me on how I need to think of these times with Tyler as a blessing and not a burden, children are blessings and just that… and I need to cherish my time.. and don’t get me wrong I do cherish my children but as some of you can attest to sometimes being a mom and dealing with kids stuff just wears on you, you know? And that was one of my days.. so that being said.. I cried a lot that morning and needed it so much.. there was a poem that our rockin pastor read it was called “Wet Oatmeal Kisses”. Wow that is a poem .. it changes your outlook on kids completely, it is a must read, I have it if you want me to email it to you…. Anyways…. I totally needed that poem and service..….and it was so refreshing to know that God knew this… We are all at appointed places at appointed time for God to move.. and boy did He move.. so after that off to a baby shower, in Flower Mound.. Cooper’s baby shower, never seen so many monkeys… but a really fun and cute shower.. I even won a game feeding Jennifer Parks apple sauce while I was blind folded.. so after the shower we went to Rosa’s Café.. YUMMO YUMMO.. it was GREAT… loved it…then we were off to life group… it was a great life group a lot of people shared, at times it seemed like we were going off track but I truly think some people there needed to hear what others had to say.. so Joshua just took it step by step and let it flow… at the end of the life group it was weird it was like in minutes all the kids had melt downs, two fell off the bed, (Tyler being one of them) Poor Maggie… thanks for watching all those kids btw… When we got home Tyler did not want to get out of the van so we left him in the to teach him a lesson how it would get cold and such… (Now don’t worry we did not leave him in there over night or more than 10 min.. we were watching him… ) he was thinking he had it all in his own little fort.. well until he bumped his head then he wanted to come in.. so we got him ready for bed and off to bed he went.. After that Joshua went to the store and I took some time and started on the “Purple Book” (side note… I have heard of the Purple Book for YEARS, I went to church where Pastor Rice preached, so all this talk of the Purple Book, back in the day I bought it.. but I lost it in the years of moving and packing and such… so I am excited to actually go through it) I did the first three sessions, trying to get the first chapter done by tomorrow… (remember the not having quite time all week last week.. yeah) and it was really great… I am loving it… I got some quite time and it felt great..
This morning I had ALL intentions on getting up and working out but, there is something up with my back.. can’t really move my right side that well not sure what is up with that.. but .. I did not work out due to that.. tomorrow I am going to push through… so I slept some more.. and I woke up late.. but you know that cool thing. I was running about 15 or more minutes late and I sat down before I got up to get ready and read my bible… (something I heard. Last night.. the word of God is like a vitamin, we need it to stay healthy… what a good way to look at it… ) And in praying we need to know God’s promises so we can use those while we are praying and to know God’s promises we need to read His word.. that is where the TRUTH is… and for some reason that really hit me..
I digress… so I was reading Psalms it was great and really spoke to me but the funny thing is I can’t remember what it said right now and where in Psalms it was.. I will have to look it.. up..
But today is the day the Lord has made.. I WILL Rejoice and be glad in it!!!!
More to come…. OH!!! My baby, big Boy Tyler will be 3 in 7 days.. !!!! What?? and Parker will be 6 months old already.. Wow... seriously where is the time going?
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