Now, as an adult all I really want is to sleep, catch up on household projects, maybe scrapbook or stamp a little. It all seems like such a simple peaceful vacation.
Then my precious girls twirls into the room and asks the dreaded question, "What are we going to do today, mom?" Last night her daddy and I tok her to the play ground behind her school and created an "American Gladiators" obstacle course for her. She ran it three times, each time beating her previous time. Then she tried the monkey bars. Even though the child can do 100 pushups before they wear her out she has not mastered the monkey bars (I never did master them!) Then she asked me to swing with her. We giggled and laughed and I realized I was way too old to fall from so high. Finally we flew her kite for a little while. It is a great kite. (Go to the website http://www.cobrakite.com/frstlsfl.html and check them out! Kids get to decorate them and I have never flown a kite with such ease!) Finally it was time to head home. Maggie was not ready and she began to grumble, "I didn't get to run the gladiator course again" I wanted to get mad and grumble back but that never helps. Instead her daddy told her that here she is at the beginning of her Spring Break and she is already counting what she didn't get to do. With that kind of attitude she was bound to have a lousy spring break.
I started thinking about this dilema. We can not wait to live the blessing filled life God has planned but as soon as it is time to move on to something else we whine about what we didn't get to do. So as we head into our spring break week, Maggie and I both will try to enjoy the blessings of the moment. We will look at what we have received and be glad.
"This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad"
Psalm 118:24
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how was your spring break? any bites on the house?
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