$1.00 per lawn

My son came home from school yesterday and said, "Mom, I made some posters and I have to go hang them up."

"What are your posters? May I see them?"

"Oh, bud, a $1.00 per lawn is very cheap. I think it would be ok to charge $10. "

"No, mom, a boy in my class is charging $20 per lawn and that is way to expensive. I have to go hang these so that I can get a job and earn some money! I got to get a job."

"Well, I was going to wait until school was out but...."

"School is out, mom."

"Yeh, right, smarty pants, ...some friends of ours wanted to know if you wanted a job washing out his cattle truck. It would be a stinky job but they were wondering if you would want to do that once a week."

"No, I don't want to do that."

"How come?"

"Because I won't get nothing for doing it."

"No, I think they would pay you."

"How much?"

"I don't know."

"Call her."

"I can't she is not home yet."

"I want to know how much it will be. When I picked weeds last fall for them, they paid me $25. "

"There you go, I'm sure that they will pay you."

Later, we were going out the acreage these friends live; my son says for all to hear, "I am going to clean out the trailer once a week and they are going to pay me $25!"

Huh? "Where did you come up with $25?"

"You said it."

"I did not - You said they paid you that before for another job - I didn't say it was going to be $25."

I was thinking about the conversation this morning. I was chuckling about how my son had put words in my mouth that I did not even say! Then it struck me - How often do I do that with God? How often do I take His Word and take it out of context so that it will fit my purposes? How often do I take promises that He as made and say, "Lord you said this___________ in your Word, I'm waiting, Lord."

I'm sorry, Lord, for all the times I have assumed and taken things as I want them and not how You meant for them to be. I am going to try to "listen" more accurately.

Thanks for the word picture you sent me! I get it now.

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, to all the mom's out there! May your day be filled with hugs and kisses, sunshine and flowers!
I am not a fan of corsages on Mother's Day. Having struggled with infertility for a number of years, the corsage was like a badge calling out to me - I am a mom and you are not! I remember skipping church on Mother's Day because it was just too hard! I ached with wanting a child and the reminder that I wasn't a mom nearly did me in!
Eventually, we made plans to adopt a child and there was much peace with that. We finished our paperwork for the adoption on Nov 11, 1997 and were now in a holding pattern until we received that "call." So we did go to church that Mother's Day. I was still childless but had the hope that a baby was going to come soon! After church, I was standing around with friends, all mom's with their corsages on, and me (I'm sure I was the only one) without. The ache consumed my thoughts. Another mom, an older, wiser mom of a friend, came up to me and gave me a hug, said a few words. The tears that had been hidden from the world, started flowing for the world to see. But my pain had been validated and it released all the emotions that were pent up. I will always remember that mom and the kindness that she gave. I pray that I may be that sensitive toward others ( I know that I have failed many times over.)
We took our son home Nov. 11, 1998! I did have a corsage that first mother's day- but I have asked that it be the last. I don't need a badge to wear - I have my sons!

A Link: Sunrises and Eschatology

The sunrise this morning was spectacular! The oranges, yellows, purples, pinks, blues of the clouds lighting the sky appeared just minutes before the sun came up. It was as if they were announcing the arrival of the sun. Then the sun appeared. When it was half way up the horizon, all the clouds turned a luminescent white. Amazing.

I am studying Daniel by Beth Moore. I laid the book down about a year and a half ago because it scared me. Fainthearted by nature, I could not get myself to read about the end of the earth. I guess I felt that I know how it ends- God's side wins - what more do I need to know? But I picked it up again after my husband challenged me to complete the book with him. Can't give in to a challenge.
God is teaching me so much. I am still not sure if I am an Amillennialist or a Premillenialist. Beth Moore repeatedly encourages you to search other commentaries and talk to others. But in the end I just am not sure it's so important to know. But...it is important to be ready, not to stick your head into the sand ( I know that's what I was doing), and to live for Him. He is coming back, Hallelujah, Amen!

Daniel prophecies (Questioning if this is the right word to use?) many signs of the end times. Many of the signs are seen in the headlines of the news. Does that mean that we are in the end of times? No one knows, not even the Son, only God the Father knows the exact time. I have comfort in that. I don't have to worry about it any longer. I can rest assured that God is in control and I don't have to be!

Thus the sunrise this morning. I have a thing for sunrises. The early morning sky changed with the colors clashing together just like the end of times will have clashing. But.....The Son will come and Believers will be changed - just like the clouds - illuminating, dazzling, white, from the Son.

Oh, what a glorious day that will be!

"Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

'Now have come the salvation and the power and
the kingdom of our God

and the authority of his Christ.

For the accuser of our brothers,

who accuses them before our God day and night,

has been hurled down. They overcame him

by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony;

they did not love their lives so much

as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens

and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea,

because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury,

because he knows that his time is short.'"
Revelation 12:10-12
So REJOICE like the heavens - God wins!

(PS. Lord, thank you for the sunrise this morning - I think it was

just for me.)