Matt's dad is in the trucking business, so occaisionally he'll get a load to deliver or pick up down here. (They live in MO). Tues. morning he called and said they were in north MS and could they come on down and see us. Of course! Who would turn down a visit from grandparents? :) They showed up Tuesday evening and planned to head out early Wed. morn. However, Dad has been sick with congestion and felt really bad Wed. so they stayed to make a doctor visit. On top of all that in MO (and pretty much everywhere else in the US, I gather) they had an ice storm and are out of power. So Grandma and Grandpa are here for at least another day. It's nice to have adult company throughout the day, two more sets of ears to hear endless questions, and Dad even swept for me today. I'm in my 6th month of pregnancy and many days it's a toss-up of "Do I want a clean floor, or do I want to be able to walk around this evening." Mobility usually wins out. My back gets a bad catch in it regularly and my pelvis is trying to get a jump-start on spreading for baby I think. I'm in pain pretty much anytime I walk. So getting my floor swept while I rested on the sofa was like having a birthday present. And MOPS is tonight. Matt had a meeting at church come up and couldn't watch the kids. Hooray for Grandma and Grandpa! They're kid-sitting for me tonight so I can go to the meeting.
It's amazing how much more I feel like mommy-ing when I'm not worn out. I can actually enjoy my kids. I just glanced outside at Felicity (3) playing alone in the yard. She was watching her shadow as she raised her hands above her clapping and marching in place. I love catching them in their own little worlds. I yelled out to her "Lissy, I love you!" She didn't even turn around and yelled back to me "I wub you."
Matt is now the new interim youth minister at First Baptist. Yeah, it surprised us too. We've never felt much of a calling to be with teens, but in the past 2 months, we could see doors opening and the Lord leading him in this position. Pray for us. Pray for our children. That's one of my major concerns; how to protect our treasures from influences we don't want them following, yet still minister to these teens. We believe God has called us to this and will give us wisdom and grace, because boy, do we need it.
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About Me
- Mississippi Rose
- I'm a Southern gal raised in MS, married to my sweet Matt from MO, the busy mamma to 4 (soon to be 5)young children. I'm realizing more all the time how I am helpless to do anything for Christ on my own. Yet when I yield myself to Him and ask for His wisdom and His power to be the wife, mom, and woman of God He wants me to be I am amazed at how He gives it. And I'm finally beginning to really understand worship as more than a church service.
4 comments:
Wow, Rose, what a leap of faith- to work with teens! I know you and Matt will be great at it, though, because you care about people and you speak the truth in love.
Glad you only have 1/3 of the way to go with #4. Maybe by the time you get there you will have gone through all the before-phases and it will all be smooth sailing.
Oh, and if you want to take the van for maiden-longer-than-an-hour-and-a-half road trip... (:
I'm sorry you're regularly in pain. That would make even the simplest day hard to get through.
I'd think that, for now, your kids aren't terribly vulnerable to teen influences, so maybe that won't prove to be a problem. Haha! You running a youth group! Irony rocks!
-- SJ
I'm not concerned about Camie asking if she can date yet. My concern is the crude words the students don't give a second thought about. But Matt is going to have "the talk" with the youth group before they come over and attempt to establish some standards we expect to be upheld in our home. PRAY ! !!
Well, like when I let the kids read Calvin&Hobbes and Get Fuzzy, you can view it as a controlled cultural education: they might learn some words you don't want them to say, and then you get to be around to explain why they're not good. Instead of having them learn them and think they're cool. I didn't object to explaining to Stuart what it means to "moon" someone, but I'd have objected if he'd learned it as something funny to do.
Anyway, just hoping to soothe a little anxiety. It's not a disaster if they learn crap and omigod, because you're there to let them know it's not acceptable language.
Also I'll pray. :)
-- SJ
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