All weekend we have been on the go.....Our lives seem never to slow down.
Isn't it funny how different seasons of your life tend to make you
wonder if it will "always" be like this? I can't say at this point I would change a thing. :-))
Since Eric has been home more the kids and I always look forward to 5:30...it's the golden hour. We are able to sit down and eat dinner as a family. I have a wonderful story to tell you all.....
We pray before ever meal and have really encouraged our little girls to pray aloud as well. Marlee and Maggie have now started fighting over who gets to pray first. Marlee looks so serious in her prayers....head bowed in her hands waiting for the moment to holler "AMEN". Maggie is the prayer police...she wants to make sure that everyone has their hands properly folded in front of them with their eyes closed and head bowed. Clearly, she hasn't picked up on the fact that if her eyes were closed she wouldn't be able to see who else had open eyes. Not that it really matters; it is just so comical to me. Anyway, Maggie was deep into her prayer the other day and said: "God thank you for the blessings and the food...Jesus Name AMEN!" God bless my sweet little girl who at times has such few words to actually say. Then you have the big kids that say their prayers as well and by the time we are all done our food is cold and it is finally time for bed...just kidding, but it is such a routine at our house. A routine that I LOVE!!! I am so blessed that my life turned out like this. I never would have thought that I could ever be loved by so many and that my love for them would be so indescribable. Dreams really do come true....even if you take the long route to achieve what God truly has in store for you.
Eric and I were in the nursery today with all the kiddos....it was so much fun. We have been upstairs teaching the older kids, in turn I had forgotten how much I love getting to be in there with the babies and toddlers. We had them singing with Josh(our Worship Pastor) the song by Kim Walker "How He Loves Us". This is my new favorite song, so of course we had to sing as well as, get out our maracas & tambourines. My girls have heard it so much that they know the words....I love seeing them all worshipping our Father.
Of course the kids really just know the chorus. If I do nothing more in my life except teach these kids that our Father loves us no matter what we have done. It is an undeserved love, but He does it. He is the constant in our lives. He is the one that is always in our court anxiously awaiting for us to talk to Him and be with Him.
"How He Loves Us" by Kim Walker:
He is jealous for me Love's like a hurricane,
I am a tree Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful
You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.
Yeah, He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves.
So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets when
I think about the way
That he loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves He loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves
Cause He loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves
Yeah, He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves
1 comments:
That's my favorite song too! :)
If you want a copy of her CD with that on it, let me know--I have it! It's great to teach the kids how to pray. Props to you and Eric for being such wonderful influences in their lives--as well as in our kids' lives in the ministry deptartment!
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