Actually its been a super crazy week since I last wrote a Random Ramblings….. Crazy Crazy CRAZY!!!!
Let’s Start with last week.
J was home from school on Monday because he had a fever the night before..and the school holds to a 24 hour policy without meds. T, K, and S went to school, but we were all very aware about the storm heading our way. Hubby had a meeting Monday night. Snow showed up Early Tuesday morning and we quickly realized that things had changed over night…our original 12 inches was upgraded and by Tuesday evening we had 29 inches of snow. did I mention the kids had a snow day Tuesday )YAY)…..and then Tuesday afternoon a travel ban was put into place…… so Wednesday no school….Thursday rolled around and the roads were much better excluding the drift spots, but no AWANA that night. J’s respite care worker came Thursday and Friday instead of Tuesday and Wednesday…. Hmmm I wonder why. Hubby was at church from 10-4-430 and then we had some errands to run and dinner out together (Are you getting tired yet, cuz I am just writing it. THEN Friday Happened….Initially all the kids had off school for Friday but since they exceeded their 5 allotted snow days T, K, and S all had school on Friday so it was just J home. Hubby and J went to church to finish up the previous days project. When they came home J’s service coordinator came for a brief meeting and his respite care worker came…we ate a quick lunch and were off to visit a church person who also had her gall bladder out last week (That is 3 of us from our church in about 3 months), then we had to pick up the kids from school (OOPS almost forgot that detail…thanks J for reminding us at lunch) had to o pick up K’s friend, whose parents are our church’s youth leaders, from her grandparents house so she could come spend the weekend with K while her parents, I and two teenagers went to a youth rally….. BREATHE!!! We drove home that night, stopped at Walmart and came home….. slept….. then left AGAIN the next morning to head back. We were there till 5ish and then headed home again… IN MORE SNOW. I didn’t get to go right home though I had a meeting at church that took a while because it involved some artistic work… and you know artists, we are our own worst critics! Yep OCD was strong!! I came home to my children (T & K) preparing dinner for us! What a blessing those two are! And that leads us to Sunday with all the normal Sunday stuff for a pastor’s family.
This life is crazy and we all go through crazy times but in the end we have choices. As the speaker at the youth rally I attended this weekend shared as he spoke through 1 Corinthians 13, we all have a choice in being loving we can be kind or we can be rude….. So in these times of Crazy it’s very easy to become self absorbed and rude, I mean ungrateful… and much more or we can CHOOSE to look beyond our crazy, our horrible, our circumstances and be who God has called us to be…… LOVING! It’s not easy and it takes a ton of practice. I know I’m not there yet. I’m not perfect and I most certainly DON’T have this all figured out. So start small. That’s what I am doing. I’m picking one thing….. and I’m choosing to pay attention to others rather than my crazy! How about you? What keeps you from being loving when THAT is what God calls us to do?
