So blessed by moms today. My mom. My mother in law. My wife who is a terrific mother. It is in honor of them that I am blogging. After a nice long weekend of chasing down a 19 month old non-stop I am tired and thought of not blogging today but my wife (a mom) requested I do... :)
I know this is the day that I usually blog about my spirtitual condition, but I think I'm going to pass this week. All I will say is that I had a rough week but I think it's been chronicled here already and the 3 people who read this, myself and the Lord know it all anyway. Next week I'll get back at it.
It was a busy weekend. We got all the kids in the car yesterday and headed into Vancouver. That was interesting. Basically a bunch of driving so we could hang out at the beach for an hour and a bunch of driving back. But it was to head into the city. Today Noah and I made Naomi breakfast then headed over to the Matsqui trail that follows along the Fraser river. We walked for over an hour along the river (most of it with a screaming 19 month old none too please to be trapped in a stroller. Dear Lord, please let this be a teething thing or a temporary thing cause we are goin to need the boy to be a bit less "screamy" in the oncoming weeks with all of our travelling) It was a nice long hot walk on a beautiful day. We then headed over to the park for dinner with the rest of the fam. More chasing of the little fellow plus the added excitement of the oldest getting stuck at the top of a large tree yelling at others to call 911. Good thing his uncle was around to climb up and help him get down cause we might have needed the professional help he was asking for if it had been up to me.
Now the kids are in bed and we are chilling on the couch each on the internet. Tomorrow promises to be another hot day.
Oh, randomly, I ran into two guys from my missional leadership hub today. One was with his family at the river and one with his family at the park. That was cool. I also met one of the pastors from our new church. He was with his family and others celebrating Mothers day at the park near us. Interesting day of encounters...
Oh heck, I guess I'll do my spiritual condition thing after all.
Books reading: Real marriage with the wife this week. I think we only read one night... "The work of the heart" by Reggie McNeal. It's one of the books I have for my course. So far so good. I also read a chapter or two of "Dug down deep" by Josh Harris. Very good book.
Church: We didn't make it this week. The little guy's had a runny nose so we thought best not to go and be told by the nursery he couldn't come in.
affections: Gotta admit, I don't think I was super active in being intentional about stirring my affections. I think I'm in a bit of a rut and have to come up with something new to break up the monotony. I tend to find something that works for me then wear it out. The week had some high's like praying and studying the bible with Noah, and then some lows like losing my way into some moodiness, I am blessed the Lord keeps calling out to me and my moody spells seem shorter and shorter.
Spiritual thanksgivings: That the Lord is good to call out to me when the fog comes. He is. I was blessed by this blog actually the other day when I was blogging I mentioned something about being thankful and it triggered something in me and reminded me the key that thankfulness is to me for ending dry and mopey spells. Thank you Jesus.
Next steps: I need to be creative and come up with new motivations for my spiritual formation stuff and weight loss. I've plateaued in both. If I'm not careful I am proned to start sliding the wrong way in times like these. So yeah, I need to pray about that.
Thanks for reading!
