Breakfast conversation is always hilarious:
Elijah: How's my smile?
Mack: Fine.
Elijah: I don't want it going all the way up to my eyes. How's it now?
Mack: Fine.
Hair combed, kids almost out the door, where is Elijah?
and then....
Elijah (age 7) brought home his school pictures today. After all we went through on Picture day to look practically perfect [not counting the dog kennel incident], now this:
"Mom, I don't like my smile. I don't think that Olivia C. will draw a heart around my face in the yearbook. Can I have redoos?"
Redoos sound great. Can I have life redoos?
5 comments:
Life re-dos are always possible. I fully believe in re-do's and second chances and have asked for them many times and take advantage of them all the time...I hope your day is filled with some joy and so glad to have found your blog.
Hugs,
G~*
My thoughts - I can not go back and change the past events of my life, BUT I can change my attitudes, responses, and outlook on life - with the help of my God.
Sometimes all I can see is how my experience may help someone else.
The program is what has allowed me to begin to do this rearranging of perspective. I have found acceptance of my past. I may not like it, but I do need to accept it - if I want any serenity and peace of mind.
And today - I do want serenity and peace of mind.
Prayers being sent your way now,
Prayer Girl
I'm thinking about "redoos", and I'm almost certain I would NOT want redoos
...but then, I am not at this moment occupied with a disease for which there no known cure as yet. AND I am not at this moment grieving for a death which was close to me.
IF my life had been different--without all the B.S., the twenty-five years of daily drinking huge amounts of booze, the purely WASTED years, the harms done others, the shame, the guilt, the remorse, the despondency, the self-imposed loneliness--well, if it were not for all that, I might NEVER have found Alcoholics Anonymous. AA has brought me back to a God of my understanding (it sounds trite, but AIN'T!). This God I can talk to 24/7. It is He (or 'she' I don't care!) Who I can call upon ANY time for the power I need to perform a given task.
"God could and would if He were sought." All this could have been completely OFF the screen, for me. I blogged today about the Gifts of AA, and I meant every word!
I LOVE the name Hope. I have a niece, about age 3, who was born sightless. Right now, there is nothing can be done for her, but our *very* large family prays for her a lot. She is loved immensely by her brothers, sisters, and cousins, and just about everyone...she is a beautiful little girl who just cannot see. Imagine that world.
Did I tell you her name? HOPE!
life redoos! oh yeah, yes please! so simple, even a child can think of it, heee heee heee. he sounds adorable!
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