Stepping Up
Ok, so I read this blog my Pastor Steven Furtick… http://www.stevenfurtick.com/personal-development/preach-like-joyceplay-like-jimi/ And I was like… Ok, I get that… it is a truth that I have encountered. If you don’t go read the blog… the basics are this: you can’t try to be anyone but you… because you aren’t ______ (fill in the blank) and more than likely the “other person’s life” won’t fit you.
There is just a lot of random chaos going on in our house…. it is so bizarre. I mean, we know that we are busy this time of year because…. prior to kids…. I thought having kids 2 years apart was the best idea ever and why not have kids during the Holidays so we get all the celebrating done. HA HA HA….so lame! Now that I have children… dumbest idea on the planet… I love my kids… but I did not have a clue and I can say this with the best heart… what part I had in planning was not wise…. I would rather be crammed with celebrations and strapped for cash than the alternative… so no complaining. So, random drama is happening too…. we are fighting colds, Riley is healthy (YAY) and her colds have not made her really sick and we have avoided pain episodes and ER’s for months… Yesterday was just a weird day…Phil is really sick…never happens… a pipe burst in our house….well garage….another YAY, but imagine me as this goes down…I don’t even know which way to turn a knob without literally saying righty tighty lefty loosey to myself…. so I call Phil screaming in a panic…HOW DO I TURN OFF THE WATER?! He knows me…and this 2 minutes of guiding me to the water dial thing was irritating to me…all while he was patient and then I have to laugh because he knows me SO well….he said, “now turn it to the right”. We are running low on everything… energy, sleep… you name it, but God still has a way of speaking to us.
While we divided and conquered the issues we were facing..more drama just kept coming… I will spare you the drama because the lesson I got in the middle of it all was cute. So, I head to get a van full of kids from the school, I asked Phil to get sudafed…the good stuff you have to “sign” for…which requires you get out of the car at Walgreens…we are so spoiled….and then he was gonna fix the pipe….homework, dinner, play time… but it is so COLD here in NC right now. Sorry if you are from a colder place…this AZ girl is freezing. We skip homework (sorry teachers…(we eventually got to it) and opted to “play” outside. I make my random announcement, “NO SHOES….NO OUTSIDE!” See, Phil and I grew up in other than southern places…so we tend to wear shoes… but ALL of our children were born here…therefore shoes are optional. If you put your shoes where they belong it isn’t hard to find them. Jonny was in the house a little longer…. and he stumbled out of the door… down one step and then off the stoop….waddling over to me with this cheesy grin. Wike my shoeses? Ok, they were my “teacher shoes” I am short, so I have 2 pair of shoes that make me taller… not trying to be anything I am not, but even in these shoes… I am shorter than most students. We laugh… he looks cute… but it is impractical for him to be in my shoes… and he can’t walk without really thinking about each step. SO NOT BOY DNA! So, I rescue the frustration and say..wanna go find your shoes? So, he walks back up the walk… hits the first step… and has to do really odd things with his feet to keep these shoes on… the step into the house is just that… right into the house…. and it is safe to be shoeless in the house… and those shoes just clung to the entry and Jonny walked right out of them and ran free as a bird into the house screaming I weally need my shoes!
Here is what I got from it…. we can rush to get to something we really want in this life (Jonny really wanted a chance on the scooter) and we may even mange to get there… because when you are going down…too big still fits. And it was just a time waster… he could not wear those shoes to do what he wanted… we both knew it…. and even if he didn’t know it…I wouldn’t have allowed it. Getting back to the house was comical… and in stepping up…he shed himself of what he thought he needed….only to take off running. I know spiritually… this is not a comical similarity, but today…I am gonna step up and shed some of the things I take on that are too big for me… and there are plenty to choose from!
Posted: January 5th, 2012 under Family.
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