It's a beautiful, sunshiny day made only more enjoyable by the fact that I found a few minutes to join Greg, from Greg's General Store, in the meme, that he now manages, Thankful Thursday!First of all, happy birthday to Greg's wife. Life is a wonderful gift, as Avery, son of Melanie from BELLA~MELLA, recently shared in his Pi Poem. His school was celebrating Pi day and everyone wrote a poem where each word had the number of letters contained in any digit of the irrational number pi. His poem was of special blessing to me. Click on "Melanie from BELLA~MELLA" above to read Avery's poem in her wonderful post with amazing pictures of Avery displaying his talents, like doing a somersault through a rainbow. I will re-print the poem here, because I am thankful for it:
Pi Poem (by Avery)
Can we as mortals understand the
almighty power of the Creator?
I say we cannot, that it is something
greater.
Life is a meaningless rift?
I come, I go, I lie, I live.
Being alive a wonderful gift.
God's original gift was life itself. "God saw all that he had made and it was very good...." Gen. 1:31. Thank you Elohim- God, Mighty Creator.
Secondly, let's just say I'm driving myself nuts trying to figure out if my future and the future of my kids is going to turn out alright. Though I know better, I seem to be losing sleep over it. The biggest looming cloud casting shadows of uncertainty is the one representing my daughter and her preparations to trade this cozy dwelling for a dorm room. I've blogged about this before, and I apologize for the repeating theme, but it consumes me. Am I thankful for this unrest? No. I am not. Because it reminds me that I am not trusting God in the way that I know I am supposed to. This makes me mad and sorrowful. I'm also perturbed that my preoccupation with this predicament often prevents me from taking time to do the most obvious: pray about it.
So what's to be thankful for then? I'm going to say: patience. Not mine, but my Father's. Like the father who prayed fervently and waited patiently for his prodigal's return, I know my Father in heaven calls gently and persistently, while he patiently waits for me to turn to Him. Thank you, Yahweh Yireh- The Lord will Provide. Thank you, Abba- Father.
Finally, March in Michigan is typically cold, rainy, snowy, dark, dreary with a quick tease of sunshine for an hour and then a snowstorm following- BUT this March of 2010 has been almost 100% sunshine with a quick, light, warmish rain one day. Robins are hopping around in the yard. My one single daffodil is budding. We grilled hamburgers and ate outside on Monday night.
I seriously love working at the bookstore- Kregel/Parable and I love the people I work with and the mission we all share- to share Hope for today and every tomorrow...
My husband still loves me, even with all my neurosis (thank you, honey- I'm sure I'll get over it all eventually).
I'm looking forward to a night out with friends as we laugh with comedian, Anita Renfroe...coming up soon.
I won the 'I Win...You Win' book that is going round robin- thanks to Robin at Be Still and Know... and will soon be receiving it in the mail and adding my 2 Thinks in the margins of its pages before passing it on to one of you.
So, there is much to be thankful for, actually. And I'm thankful for the opportunity to share it all here. Thanks for reading.
Good idea to keep this going, Greg.
12 comments:
Of course! Thank you for posting Avery's poem. He leaves in a couple of days for 10 long days away from home. I'm going to miss him.
The friend I walked with yesterday (alligator friend) is the mother of Avery's bestfriend. The funny thing is that instead of writing a Pi poem, Avery's friend opted to bring in a pie. He didn't tell his mom until that morning on the way to school! She stopped and got a pie! Thanks to Avery I didn't have to do an early morning grocery stop.
I'm thankful for this weather too! I'm also thankful for that poem - he did great!
As for worrying about kids, I've been doing that too after a health scare with Heather, which isn't yet cleared up. I give it to God, but keep taking it back!
Its so true that sometimes we are so busy worrying and wondering that we forget to pray- right with you on that one!! I like your Thankfuls, and its comforting that you are still working on your perfection too...
Thank you for visiting me at my place wearlier and your kind comment!
Diane says thank you. I took the afternoon off and we went to dinner together. Without kids!!!!!!:)
AMEN to the FATHERS patience...I am still such a work in progress.
Hugs, andrea
My guess is tht Fash will be just fine! I think she has been raised really well, Mom!
PS. Sorry about the blog problems. I've had that happen on several blogs and had to shut down, too. Eventually, it quit doing it--but I'm not sure why. Usually, I could go back in and it would be just fine.
Heidi,
You must give it to God. It is true that God has many children. But He has absolutely zero grandchildren. And He will take care of them on his terms. Not ours.
I loved Melanie's post on Avery's poem.
I too am making myself crazy about my kids future so I soooo feel your pain!!!
Lucky girl..working in a bookstore!!
Isn't it amazing how many things we can find to be thankful for if we'll take the time to count them, one-by-one?
Blessings,
Kathleen
I would not worry so much if I were you. Just go with the flow and enjoy the moment I always say. Deal with the problems when and IF they appear? Your husband and your kids love you, you have a great job with nice colleagues and you're healthy? What's to worry? Have a great weekend Heidi!
ha, it is saturday morning, and so much for that lovely march weather, eh?
as for fash going off-- you know, i haven't really been able to relate to those weepy feelings (from you and many other moms) about kids leaving the nest. it just didn't hit me that hard with j & e. odd, yes, an adjustment, yes, but i was okay with it. (with j, the difficulty came from feeling like we hadn't done a good enough job with him and still had more to do before he left-- not from the actual leaving.) BUT... i am really wrestling now with whether or not we send b to high school next year and finding myself having a hard time with the idea of him leaving our "homeschool nest." even though i think it may be a good and necessary step in his journey to adulthood, and even though it would relieve a lot of stress from me, it is hard to think of letting him go. not the same, but sort of. *sigh* so i can relate a little better now.
(and yes, i know fash is your youngest and that makes a difference, too.)
huh, the night out with friends sounds fun! how nice to have great friends to do stuff with! maybe you guys should try to go out to dinner once a month! ;-) hmmm... i think i need to get an email out...
Sometimes it's so hard to give things to God. Actually, I can give them to Him, but I keep taking them back and then I give them again and then I take them back. But fortunately God understands that and loves us and keeps encouraging us to let Him take care of it. I've always heard it said, Why not let God worry tonight, He's gonna be up anyway.
I hope you got the book. It went in the mail on Monday.
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