Obedience

I have been feeling that lately at church, I am at church, but not really there. I find my mind wandering about what we will do for dinner, or what the week holds ahead for us. Sometimes at church, I find an excuse to sit in he nursery. I have not felt like I have been fed lately. I am sure that the majority of this is my fault, since I am not putting trying to listen. But today was different. Today, our pastor talked about obedience. It was 1 of the best sermons I have heard him speak in a very long time. Maybe it was just because I was really listening, I don't know, but it was very good.

He was in 1 kings, and talking about the man of God who was told by God to go and tell the King something. And he wasn't to stay in the city and eat or anything. And he didn't stay, he was invited to go the the King's house, and was going to be offered a reward, but he obeyed God, and he went a different way home. But he got tired, and he rested under the oak, and another prophet out of the will of God came and invited him back to his house for dinner. And the man of God said, no, I won't go, but the prophet said that God told him to tell the man to come to his house. And the man turned around and went back and ate at the prophets house. And in the end, the man died, b/c he didn't obey God. He knew what he was supposed to do, and he didn't do it.

This sermon really spoke to me. My husband and I had a choice to make today. We were invited to go to a Casting Crowns concert tonight. I was at 1st really excited about this. I love the Casting Crowns. But it was on a Sunday night. We at 1st said we would go. But something kept nagging at me. I couldn't shake the thought that maybe we weren't doing the right thing by going tonight. And then I sat down for church, and the pastor whips out this sermon on obedience. I kept fighting with myself b/c I wanted so bad to go to this concert but I felt the Lord telling us to stay home and go to church instead. Well the pastor ended with these 3 verses in Dueteronomy....................

11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

I really felt like I had to choose to obey what he was telling me or knowingly disobey him. I chose to obey.

As promised

Brother's class

Brother in his classroom before the program


Brother really did a great job during the program. He didn't do the motions to the song. But he sang really well, so I am happy with that.

Dada Cheerleading

Dada during practice.....the girls really enjoy having her there!

She is the little mascot of the cheerleading squad

She was even allowed to cheer on the court. She thought that was the greatest thing ever!!

Fall clean up

Dada taking a turn with the leaf blower!

Great job Dada!!

Brother couldn't wait to get his hands on this!!

Brother's program..........take 1

Brother has his 1st official school program tonight. He has a new outfit, new shoes, even new socks. He even had a haircut which he did himself! He has been worried about this program since 2:30 this afternoon. He cried for about 45 min saying he didn't want to go, he wasn't going to be in the program, he was just going to sit my daddy. He just keeps insisting he isn't going to do it. We'll see how he does. Pray he does well tonight. I can only see him standing up on stage sucking his thumb!

this is me screaming

Dada was 425 last night at 3. I can't win.

Just another night

Well I woke up at 3 for my nightly blood sugar check of Dada. I stood in disbelief when it read that her sugar was so low that the meter couldn't read it! I then spent the next 45 min frantically dosing her with pop and candy trying to get her sugar up. It being the middle of the night, she was out cold and I could barely wake her up. I did finally wake her up and she kept crying telling me that she wanted to go back to bed. I could barely get anything down her. She did end up chewing a couple Swedish fish, which she threw a fit about, and then she nursed some Gatorade. I finally got her sugar up but now it was 215. I gave her a little insulin. I still didn't want her to go low again, and I lowered her basal rate ( which is how much insulin she gets per hour) and sent her back to bed. She was a little high this morning, but she was better.

I have to commend the basketball team. They played a rival school ( Hammond Baptist ) in our tip off tournament, and they beat them! It was an amazing game, and Jeremy's cousins were phenomenal playing today!

Speaking of Hammond, the only sport they allowed their girls to do was cheer lead. So they had an incredible squad. Well, now they have decided that cheerleading is wrong, so the girls can't do that either. I was FLOORED when I heard that. I have my own thoughts on this absurdity, but that is for another post.

Also, Dada has found something that she loves to do. She was allowed last night to cheer with the cheerleaders. And she thought it was great! She received many compliments, some even from the other team saying how well she did. She stood out there the entire game and did exactly what the girls did. I was very proud of her! ( I will post pictures later) I am going to get an old uniform and get it taken in for her. Today, she wore her Aunt Jennifer's old Cheerleading uniform, and I do have to say that she looked awful cute!

I also have to say that it is great to see my husband!! He has been working 12 hour days all week. I got to spend some time with him today and I really enjoyed it. I don't like him working this much. I miss him when he is gone.