Pedestals

I'm at Houston Hospital and Mom is through surgery, She did well and dad and I got sent out of her room so she could start some physical therapy.

She is in no pain thanks to a femoral nerve block .

I haven't decided if I'm coming home tonight or in the morning.

Dad seems really tired, He didn't sleep at all last night and it's showing, so I feel like I need to stay so he can go back to the hotel and get some sleep.

I have always been the child that mom and dad call when they need something and it never has really been an issues but as they get older now I can't help but wonder what the future is going to be like as the age. Even though I have a brother and a sister they especially my sister is never there when we need her so it is going to probably be me and Steve. unless things change

and we all know that things can change in a flash.

Enough ramblings of the brain,

I just wanted to thank God for mom coming through so well and and praise him for the days ahead as she recovers and comes home, ( should be Sat or Sun).

God is good

I listened to new city sermons on the way here ( thanks Keith) and was reminded that we need to minister to others as well as to ourselves. I had never thought about ministering to myself but it makes sense to me now. Well dad is here now and is wanting to take me to dinner and make me go home tonight, see life does have a way of surprising y\you doesn't it. here I am thinking that he wants me to stay. Sort of puts me in less needed place, ( off my pedestal quickly)
So it looks like I will be sleeping in my bed tonight instead of a chair.Sounds good to me

The Simple Things

Well today is Wednesday and I am leaving for

Columbus in the morning. Mom is having a knee replacement in at the Houston Clinic in Columbus . My sister was going to go with me but that fell through. Keep mom and me in your prayers today. I hope to be back tomorrow night if all goes well,



Any way I haven't been blogging lately because I'm having a hard time narrowing down things that are in my head / on my mind.

That's what ADD does to you, too many thoughts not enough time to decipher all of them.

Last week I volunteered at 567 and I really enjoyed it, Carley and I worked during Bragg Jam but this time I was on my own.

I was thinking about other traditional church functions I have been a part of or participated in and realized how important what we are doing really is, I love taking the love of Jesus out into our city, in a non confrontational way, not in your face, bible toting, finger pointing way.,just going out into our city where people are and being with them,. not trying to coax them into our attractions but instead going out to the attraction., It just keeps getting clearer to me what Kieth means by "doing life" together. It makes so much sense to me now that I understand that Jesus was telling us to do what he did . It's real advise that works in our lives the way it worked in His life and the lives of the people that followed him. I am so excited about what God is doing in all of our lives and the life of our church. It just amazes me that the simple things we miss are the most important things we need to know.

The way Jesus told us to live our lives is so simple once you understand it, We just don't believe any thing can be that simple we have to mess it up by complicating it.

It just proves to me again that God doesn't need us to fix things. it's us that need Him to fix our messes.