Thank you, Father, for blessing me with a new travel coffee cup to replace my green one that I somehow misplaced. Thank you that that is a metaphor with what you do in my life!
I get so bummed about losing stuff in my life; be it a loved one, a season that was so good in my life, things I am comfortable with and like the routine of... and yet, you faithfully show me that in loss there is something to be attained.
Losing my mother-in-law recently, grieving in her passing, brought my husband and I closer, with each other and with our family and friends.
Though my immediate family is so far from me geographically, my life is enriched as I open up to my friends, those around me and to my church people.
Having children and being a stay-at-home-mom made me miss the work I used to do everyday with Jake in staffing schools and going on outreaches. Yet, I am blown away by the continual training of my heart and responses to my imperfect, precious and fragile children. My little "Joy" and "Grace." (Kiera Joy and Julianna Rose)
You take the things in our lives that cause heartache and sorrow and you are able to create such beautiful and new experiences and lessons for us to learn. Most of all, you work your transforming power in our hearts and teach us about our need for love and our need to love.
Papa, you are the greatest joy to me!! I love you with all of my heart! Keep showing me how much you love and desire me and I will keep praising you in painful times and in happy times. You are the greatest desire of my heart and life. May my children and my children's children see you in the great and private moments of their lives. In times when you heal someone of cancer and in times when you provide for the smallest and most intimate of their needs, like a replacement travel coffee cup or a hand of a friend that gives theirs a squeeze.
Thank you for how perfect Your love is.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Coffee-triggered Memories
After a fun evening of dinner at a favorite restaurant, double-dating
with some good friends, we went over to their house and I was
introduced to an exciting new game called "Ticket to Ride." All that fun
made me tired today. So, after a morning $1 movie with the kids and
lunch we hit the sack for some naps and got up at 5pm!:) Thus, I am
having "morning" coffee now while waiting for rice to cook for tonight's
fried rice dinner. :)
As I breathed in the fragrant, intoxicating aroma of Starbucks morning blend I reached for the french vanilla creamer which is a staple in our house. I felt that it was nearly empty and poured what remained into my cup. There is a little trick I learned from my dad and as I did it I was surprised with how second-nature something had become that came from him! I took the pitcher of hot coffee and poured a little into the plastic creamer container, closed it's lid, and shook it up so I could get all of the creamer goodness which remained. The thought hit me, "Man, that is so funny that I do that! It's just like my dad."
I started thinking, "What others things do I do that I learned from my dad?"
What things do you do that you learned from your father's example? Does anything come to mind?
As I breathed in the fragrant, intoxicating aroma of Starbucks morning blend I reached for the french vanilla creamer which is a staple in our house. I felt that it was nearly empty and poured what remained into my cup. There is a little trick I learned from my dad and as I did it I was surprised with how second-nature something had become that came from him! I took the pitcher of hot coffee and poured a little into the plastic creamer container, closed it's lid, and shook it up so I could get all of the creamer goodness which remained. The thought hit me, "Man, that is so funny that I do that! It's just like my dad."
I started thinking, "What others things do I do that I learned from my dad?"
What things do you do that you learned from your father's example? Does anything come to mind?
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