Love

Well, I don’t know what it is about this age (2 1/5 to 3) but kids just seem to loose it! Jake has been acting out so much the past few weeks. Some times he can be so sweet and others times he is totally out of control! Well today, he got a hold of a crayon when he was supposed to be taking a nap. I went in to check on him and he was coloring. He was coloring his bed! Not ON his bed, his BED! Then as I started to look around his room, it was like a horror film! I could actually here the music! He colored all over his bed, Wyatt's bed, his rocking horse and my beautiful light green glider! My glider! O no! I thought I was going to burst in to tears! By the grace of God, I took a deep breath and was able to talk to him and not get angry or yell.
I have been praying 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 in my life.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. (I) Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
I have been praying for patients and the ability to control my temper and be kind to every one. I want to be more loving... especially to my kids. I am called to love... I want to Love...Love is not easily angered and 1 Peter 4:8 says
Above all, keep your love for one another at full strength, since love covers a multitude of sins.

I Love my kids. I want to love them as God say to love them not just how I feel like loving them. Like I said I had been praying for this and God gave me the opportunity today to put it into action. Jake was punished for his actions, but not out of my anger out of my love for him and wanting him to make right choices. He said he was sorry and I said I forgave him, and I did. Love does cover a multitude of sins! Gods love covers my sin and lets me forgive to. I thank God for testing me and showing me He is faithful to answer prayers and to be working on me. Thankfully, I believe everything will come out and can be washed...just like me.

So, I was eating some Costco chicken today. I really love Costco chicken. I was once asked a question "if you only had one food to eat for a month what would it be?" for me I think it would be Costco chicken. It's good, versital, healthy, full of protine and low in fat. What a great food chicken is. So as I am thinking about this my mind starts to wander a bit. I started to think about the Isrealites wondering through the desert and how God gave them manna falling from the sky to eat. Now if I know God at all I am sure manna was a very well balanced meal. Good in protien and filled with stuff our body needs to survive. How is it that the people could grow tired of this food falling from the sky? They had to eat it for 40 years! Not only that, but they were promised a land flowing with milk and honey. Why would they want manna when they could be eating milk and honey? God wanted to deliver them to the promised land, but they were the ones keeping it from happening. No wonder God did not give them better food or more variety...He did not want them to stay where they were! He wanted them to move forward with faith they did not have. God can take us to great places if we let Him lead and take us there.

"Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe." Jude 1:5

So, that's what I thought about...while eating chicken. :)