A Tale of Two Parents

Micah asked if she could take my car to youth group tonight.  After all, she has had her license for a little over forty-eight hours!  Of course I said, "Yes!" and continued working on my project.  Sam went to the door and watched her pull away.  About 15 minutes later, he said, "Micah must be there by now.  Did she text you?"  My response?  "Where did she go?"  Obviously, one of us was a bit more concerned than the other - and she had my car! 

Being a Type A

There are days when being a Type A personality is much more challenging - like today - when I had exactly one hour to do exactly what I have been wanting to do for exactly three long days.  I got everything out when Matt and his best friend said, "Do you want to play a game?"  And while my mind said, "No, no, no!  I want to get this project done!" the words that came out of my lips were, "Can we play Skip-bo?"  Because you know these opportunities won't happen forever! 

Happy Birthday,

SAM!

Congratulations . . .

. . . to Miss Micah on a perfect driving test today at the Eagan course!  That means she now has her license!  Of course, my Bible study was praying . . .

God smiled . . .

When I sent our birth mother "Mother's Day Greetings" and He smiled when she sent them back to me because He's known since the beginning of time, that even more than mothers, we are friends!

Oh, the things I say!

Sometimes it just comes out!  And yesterday was a classic!  I had a young woman up on the zip line platform who said, "Where am I going to go?"  And I said, "Heaven if you know Jesus and Hell if you don't."  I got the most surprised look and then sent her down the zip!  Good thing my boss loves Jesus!

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!

We scored a victory yesterday!  We had four older cousins come to the zip line.  San Diego cousin had found us on line - let's hear it for google!  And she convinced her brother and two cousins to join her for a zip while she was in town.  Sadly, girl cousin who could almost see her house from the platform (I never did get her name) got up on the platform and started shaking and crying and saying, "I want to do this so bad, but I can't.  I just can't."  Not one to take "No" for an answer, I asked if she would be willing to try just zip number three.  I explained to her what it looked like, what it felt like, and how she might think she was going to hit the tree at the end, but it was a shorter, less steep zip and she would never hit the tree.  Then, I unhooked her and sent her down the trail.  

I found out when she came up the trail with the biggest grin on her face, she had scored a victory!  She let out a happy scream just for me, "I did it!  I did it!  Twice!" and followed it up with a big hug. Every time her cousins landed on platform three, she joined them and had an absolutely wonderful time defeating her fears!  To God be the glory!