Deb’s Journey

Still on the east coast……On Sunday, we went to a church up where a few a my friends that I worshipped with for years go to and they ask me to do a song for them. Oh plus Saturday night we just jammed, twas so fun. I asked them if just on two songs
I could play the drums, oh my word, that was great. I wasn’t great or anything it was just exciting to actually play with live muisic! Then I went to my usual instrument….the guitar. (I still like playing my own better.) My friend, Angela sings and plays like Rita Springer, whom I enjoy alot.

So back to Sunday…the preacher talked on the Sabbath Rest, it was really good for what we are going thru right now. One of things he said, “man works is God’s rest and God’s work is man’s rest.” I think I said that right, bottom line, when we rest God can be at work. I like it!

I sung a song I wrote, it went well, I was a little nervous.

Then we went to see my mother in law, to visit a place she loves, Country Buffet and my boys love the place now. The oldest actually eat his moneys worth. That place can be like a eating trap, unlike the Stokke Tripp Trapp, maybe if they didn’t have all the desserts.

It was fun spending time with her!

My oldest boy stayed with a friend of his here and we just picked him up after 3 days….do you know after just 30 minutes he was asking to go somewhere else? He outer appearance showed me he was so tired and thus he was also grouchy. Just lovely for a mom who hasn’t seen here son for a couple of weeks, I envisioned him running into my arms telling me how much he missed me!! I’m kidding, I knew that wouldn’t happened but I can dream can’t I??

On the second day, I spent time with my niece. We had a wonderful visit and catch up time over lunch at Olive Garden then to the mall, then back to her house. Her house is equipped with their own in ground swimming pool, it is gorgeous! The house is a retreat in itself, it has a weight room with all you would need to keep in shape. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a supply of Hydroxycut hardcore.

Anyway, my niece and I had a wonderful talk which including a variety of subjects…..I love those kinds of talks and I love my niece. My moments with her were priceless.

I’m back on the east coast for a few days…..its good to see all my friends. The first day it was a whirlwind, my husband wanted me to see everyone on the first day. It was good though. One of the first day we went to was Borders, a restaurant that we used to go to at least one every two weeks. The waitress even remembered us!

The next place was our neighbors, a couple of older people whom we love and enjoy spending time with them. They are in their 80’s but continue to stay busy, I believe there’s alot I could learn from them. She would be like my grandma who would wear the clip on earrings, and loves to decorate her house with the frilly things. Their house is cute! We will going back there to play our card game and eat dinner, she’s also a good cook.

It was strange seeing our old house too. Not sure if sad would be the word, just strange.

How many times this summer have you heard, “I’m bored!” It is amazing to me how many times I have heard this and will try to compensate to the kids, when I truly know that there is no way they could be bored, not in the true meaning of the word. How could they be, with the PS2, Xboxes, computer games, and the list just could go on and on?

Maybe the problem lies with us and our willingness to entertain to their every whem. I know I just forget sometimes, or its easier to give in than to argue with them, (I know thats totally wrong thinking), if I could always be thinking on my feet I would do the correct thing everytime. But thats just not the way it is.

I just don’t want them spoiled or thinking everything is a quick fix……thats not the way life is. They need to learn how to have fun and sometimes make something fun…..it’s all in the attitude.

Hey I’m doing a new Beth Moore Bible Study…..Stepping Up, a journey through the Psalms. I really like it of course. If you ever get the chance to do a study, you will be guarantee to grow, if you are digging.

Anyway, yesterday came across a verse in John 13:7 that Jesus said, that I say to my kids alot and I’m sure you do too.

“You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

Pretty awesome, right? I think so. God knows us so well and we don’t always give Him credit for that, I mean knowing what we need and when we need it. All goes back to trusting Him and relying on Him for life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. He’s not for carrying around like an inflatable boats, for only we are sinking. He came for the abundant living, adventurous, and totally being in love with Him. God made us with a plan in mind as stating in Jeremiah 29:11…… For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

VS. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

One more story about the Explosion…we took the song Twist and Shout and we christianized it! We had so much fun with that song and of course we got to do the twist.

We also had teens on little tricycles…they ended up breaking the seats on them and the handle bars weren’t the same after the first night. The games the adults came up with were fun! Maybe next year we will buy a bus and have the kids fix it up for a challenge. I actually think that we should do things like starting a fire or building a shelter like they do on Man vs. Wild. My whole family likes that show and the boys learn alot from it, like how to eat a spider! Ugh!

The open skies here are truly beautiful…you can see for miles, just like at the beach. I must say that getting used to the fact that tornadoes happen to cross this view, I really don’t like, but parts of the country have something.

Hey the boys and I watched August Rush the other night….what a great movie. The boys enjoyed it too, which it is quite hard to impress them without fighting being involved. The movie was very inspiring but would have been even better on a home theater carpet…a little surround sound.

We are trying to be more strict with what we let the boys watch….more wholesome movies and shows. We starting recording the Cosby Show…they love it and want to watch it everyday. I wished they had My Three Sons on TVLand and Gomer Pyle.

Well, the Olympic Explosion is over, quite a few teens and juniors accepted Christ as their personal Savior. Awesome! I will let you view a few pictures of the last night. They had a slippery soccer game on this soapy tarp. It was amazing to watch. I only watch though, I knew better than to think I could get out there with all those Juniors!

All the adults were wiped out……oh and the next day I took the oldest to catch his first flight at 5am. So alot was going on….I just wanted to sleep and wake up turning my Delta faucets on to a hot bath to let my weary bones relax.

My boy did great with the flight, wasn’t scare at all. He asked a few questions the couple of days before, but just really did good.

I really miss him but know he’s having alot of fun!

Our Olympics Explosion started on Thursday….where we rewrote the song Born to be Wild. Its going very well….teens are interacting with the songs, games are crazy wild, food is good, and the message is just right. We have had teens accept Christ, which is the whole purpose!

The games that are being invented are crazy…like riding tricycles with a homemade jousting stick.
Now I’m sure the Chicago personal injury lawyers would want to come and see if there are any cases for them. The jousting sticks are made out of PVC piping and something soft at the end of the stick.

Then we had a race of recliners, piled with 4 teens……they were really tired after this one. I tried pushing and was exhausted afterwards.

The teens nights were Thursday through Saturday, then the Junior High, Sunday through Tuesday.
I’m really tired but it’s been exciting to be a part of this!

This is yet another story about one of my boys….youngest. We were driving back from church, the oldest was playing in an All Star game (they won) and he wanted to talk about not wanting to die by means of water. You have to know the kid, before this talk, while at Wendy’s, he asked if salt could killed you. He has always asked alot of questions.

Anyway back to the story, I told him that God knows this but if it did happen God would give him the peace that passes all understanding. So I explained (as best as I could) this to him. That at the time we need it the most, despite our circumstances bad or worse than that, He would always get us thru, not with California wines but with His Holy Spirit.

Then I went on the tell him that in the next moment a deer could run out in front of us and he could fall off his bike and hit a rock……we don’t know what’s going to happen but He also tells us not to fear, we keep on living!