I read something in my devotional that hit home and I wanted to share it. This is from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, it's written as Jesus speaking:
"Do not search for security in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list, you could relax and be at peace. But the more you work to accomplish that goal, the more things crop up on your list. The harder you try, the more frustrated you become. There is a better way to find security in this life. Instead of scrutinizing your checklist, focus your attention on My Presence with you. This continual contact with Me will keep you in My Peace. Moreover, I will help you sort out what is important and what is not, what needs to be done now and what does not. Fix you eyes not on what is seen (your circumstances), but on what is unseen (My Presence)."
From: Isaiah 26:3 and Corinthians 4:18
I'll try. This is so, so hard to do. To gain control, let go. That seems so foreign to do.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Happy Mother's Day!
First of all, I'm sitting at Biggby coffee with Kylie. She is watching My Little Pony on YouTube, the newer version that you can find on cable. It keeps her busy and she loves the whipped cream with sprinkles she can get here. I'm on another computer and I thought I'd use Google Chrome for once, so I get it set up to my page including my gmail. I thought it would be pretty easy to also add my blog as a widget. Think again. I couldn't find it quickly when I looked at the widgets so I said "forget it" and just went and searched for it in the search bar. It took me 10 minutes to find my own blog! I'm guessing because I don't write much and people have stopped checking in because I don't write much. I'm hoping soon we'll have the Internet working at the house again. Hey, it's been about a year, it's time.
I actually did write a list of topics I can write about so that way I'm not sitting here going "uhhh, I don't have anything to say," or "I forgot what I was going to say." Now I just don't know if I should space this out over a couple of blogs or write one big huge one. I'll probably space it out because I'll run out of time. Good thing there's like a hundred My Little Pony episodes : ) Kylie find something else to watch if she goes through all the MLP.
On May 1, I took Kylie to Kindergarten Roundup at St. Thomas. We are excited to send her to this school, it's our Parish's school and they do such a wonderful job with the children. At some point, I want to talk with the teachers and principle about Chloe and Faith and that Kylie will mention Faith sometimes. She does at home so I'm thinking she might outside of home too. I want her to hear from other people that Faith is with Jesus in the most beautiful place you can't even imagine.
The Roundup we went to was in the afternoon which worked better for me. I took a half day off, picked up Kylie and told her that if she would let me leave her in the Kindergarten room with all her new friends, we would go to Spoonlickers for ice cream (it's really frozen yogurt). When we arrived at school, Kylie had a death grip on my arm and didn't want me to leave. I stayed with her for 30 minutes. We had gone to see the Enrichment teachers office. Kindergarten is only half day, 5 days a week. Three days a week Kylie will be with the Enrichment teacher until school ends. On those days she'll eat in the cafeteria with the older kids. Fun! Fun! After going back to the classroom, I reminded Kylie of our deal with ice cream. She pushed me out the door. I guess I shouldn't worry so much about her making friends. I think I was awful at making friends when I was little and I don't want her to experience what I did. A little insight to my childhood - 3rd grade my "best friend" told me on days when we had to play inside she would play with me, otherwise when we were outside, she didn't want anything to do with me. That might not be how it really was, but that's what I remember.
The principle was serving coffee and cookies in the lounge so I went to visit her and some of the parents. It was nice, except these parents will have their children in the afternoon class whereas Kylie is in the morning class. It was a good time, except the tooth pain I was experiencing. Before long, Roundup was done and I picked her up. I told her we would go to Spoonlickers and then to the long park (called so because it's a longer walk from our house, unlike the short park which is only 2.5 blocks away).
I love ice cream so I treated myself as well. Spoonlickers is kind of expensive but it's understandable as they use organic all or most of the time. Big mistake for me having ice cream. I was in excruciating pain. I had called the dentist earlier in the day but they couldn't fit me in until the following Wednesday. I was going to Traverse City that weekend and I didn't want to have this pain, so I called the dentist back and they told me to come in right away if it hurt. I took Kylie and she sat my lap watching SpongeBob while I had a root canal. I was glad to have it done because my tooth didn't hurt anymore.
That's all I'll post in this post. I will do another one shortly (hopefully, I was having connectivity issues a minute ago).
I actually did write a list of topics I can write about so that way I'm not sitting here going "uhhh, I don't have anything to say," or "I forgot what I was going to say." Now I just don't know if I should space this out over a couple of blogs or write one big huge one. I'll probably space it out because I'll run out of time. Good thing there's like a hundred My Little Pony episodes : ) Kylie find something else to watch if she goes through all the MLP.
On May 1, I took Kylie to Kindergarten Roundup at St. Thomas. We are excited to send her to this school, it's our Parish's school and they do such a wonderful job with the children. At some point, I want to talk with the teachers and principle about Chloe and Faith and that Kylie will mention Faith sometimes. She does at home so I'm thinking she might outside of home too. I want her to hear from other people that Faith is with Jesus in the most beautiful place you can't even imagine.
The Roundup we went to was in the afternoon which worked better for me. I took a half day off, picked up Kylie and told her that if she would let me leave her in the Kindergarten room with all her new friends, we would go to Spoonlickers for ice cream (it's really frozen yogurt). When we arrived at school, Kylie had a death grip on my arm and didn't want me to leave. I stayed with her for 30 minutes. We had gone to see the Enrichment teachers office. Kindergarten is only half day, 5 days a week. Three days a week Kylie will be with the Enrichment teacher until school ends. On those days she'll eat in the cafeteria with the older kids. Fun! Fun! After going back to the classroom, I reminded Kylie of our deal with ice cream. She pushed me out the door. I guess I shouldn't worry so much about her making friends. I think I was awful at making friends when I was little and I don't want her to experience what I did. A little insight to my childhood - 3rd grade my "best friend" told me on days when we had to play inside she would play with me, otherwise when we were outside, she didn't want anything to do with me. That might not be how it really was, but that's what I remember.
The principle was serving coffee and cookies in the lounge so I went to visit her and some of the parents. It was nice, except these parents will have their children in the afternoon class whereas Kylie is in the morning class. It was a good time, except the tooth pain I was experiencing. Before long, Roundup was done and I picked her up. I told her we would go to Spoonlickers and then to the long park (called so because it's a longer walk from our house, unlike the short park which is only 2.5 blocks away).
I love ice cream so I treated myself as well. Spoonlickers is kind of expensive but it's understandable as they use organic all or most of the time. Big mistake for me having ice cream. I was in excruciating pain. I had called the dentist earlier in the day but they couldn't fit me in until the following Wednesday. I was going to Traverse City that weekend and I didn't want to have this pain, so I called the dentist back and they told me to come in right away if it hurt. I took Kylie and she sat my lap watching SpongeBob while I had a root canal. I was glad to have it done because my tooth didn't hurt anymore.
That's all I'll post in this post. I will do another one shortly (hopefully, I was having connectivity issues a minute ago).
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