Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Shoeboxes

One of my favorite things to do at Christmas time is create shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child! http://www.operationchristmaschild.org This year our Children's Church topped their all time high we packed 63 boxes and had over $500 donated for the shipping of those boxes!

Monday, November 17, 2008

I'll keep her around!

Some people are glass half empty, some are glass half full. I try to be optimistic but sometimes it just happens that things go wrong and you get frustrated not only at what happened but with yourself, it's then something happens to bring you back to the joy of life!

Today I was having a typical clumsy moment, I was in the kitchen grabbing a glass of water, I took a great big drink and totally missed my mouth totally soaking my sweatshirt in the process. My daughter was in the kitchen and I frustratedly told her "look what I did, I totally missed my mouth!"

In her typical optimistic attitude she said "at least you TRIED (to hit it)"

Her comment totally gave me the giggles and took the focus off what was wrong and onto what I did right. I decided that I think I'll keep her around *grin*

Monday, November 3, 2008

Jumping for J.O.Y.

So I taught children's church this week. We talked about Joy (we are studying the fruit of the spirit) and we talked about finding joy by putting (J)esus first then (O)thers then (Y)ourself. We jumped for joy. To make a J we decided to jump up kicking our feet behind us. For an "O" it was suggested we touch our toes, but that wasn't moving, so we decided to do summersaults. Y was an easy one jumping up with our arms in a Y.

The kids had a blast, and they wanted me to do it too. So I did. That's when I realized that a 37 year old woman shouldn't do summersaults on carpet covered cement.....

(Granted I don't think the kids will forget the lesson!)