Saturday had Finally Arrived!

​​It’s funny because I don’t have a job and it’s the middle of the summer so there’s no school and yet I still look forward to the weekends!  Part of the reason is that I look forward to the Lord’s Day (Sunday) and gathering with the Lord’s people at church each week.  But today is Saturday.  I just feel this sense of relief.  That I survived another week filled with appointments and activities.  This is the day I look back on my week and marvel at all the Lord helped me accomplish and all of the special interactions that were unplanned and reminders of God’s care for ALL the details in our lives.

Our new mattress arrived yesterday and I feel like it was an improvement over our old one.  But the real story is the way God perfectly orchestrated the delivery.  It was supposed to arrive between 9:30 and 11:30 and my husband was supposed to be home from his trip at about 10am (depending on traffic between the airport and home).  I had the bed stripped and ready for the old mattress to be taken out but our bedroom is upstairs and there is a light fixture on the wall that my husband removed the last time we got a new mattress and I didn’t know how to deal with disconnecting the wiring so I didn’t attempt to remove it.  But it’s really hard to get a big mattress through that narrow area without wiping that fixture out.  Well, the Lord brought my husband home about 10 or 15 minutes before the mattress delivery guys showed up and he was able to quickly remove the light fixture and we got our mattress delivered with no damage to it or to the house.  🙂 I know, it’s a little thing.  But God’s hand is in EVERY little thing.  I love seeing Him in the nitty gritty details of the mundane things in our lives as much as in the bigger, weightier things.  We have such an AWESOME GOD!

My stomach was HORRIBLE yesterday but it’s much better so far this morning.  My husband is working on his bid for his schedule in September.  He has to submit a bid every month for his schedules.  It’s a long and tedious process but since the schedules are assigned by seniority, if he takes the time to carefully evaluate the available schedules (and there are over 400 schedules to review and rank), he can generally get a good schedule.  

The kids are still sleeping.  It’s almost 9am but they were up late last night because they went to a youth group “Bond” fire which was a lot of fun!  They only do these events once a month (for the most part) in the summer so it’s always fun for them to get together and goof off.  My son has recently started making friends with one of the boys in the youth group which thrills my heart.  My son is friendly to all and will talk to anyone but he is very careful about who he considers a close friend.  It takes him a ling time to develop trust because he has not been treated well by boys his age in general.  I have really been praying he would make a friend or two at church.  I specifically spend some time praying he would make a friend at the BBQ our church had after the service last week and much to my delight he connected with a kid sitting next to him and he gave him his email address and it was HIS house the kids went to for last night’s “bondfire”.  The kid even gave my son a hug when it was time to leave.  I am praying these boys will be able to develop a good bond of friendship!

My daughter has lots of friends at school but only a couple of friends at church.  She has 1 good girl friend at church who has been on a family road trip most of the month so they hadn’t seen each other in a few weeks until last night - they came home a day early from their trip and so she ended up going to the “bondfire” which was so exciting for my daughter who ended up bear hugging her when she got there! 🤣. But the main thing I have my eye on and my prayers focused on for her is a relationship she has with a boy at church.  They are not allowed to date until she is 16 (in 2 years) but they only have eyes for each other.  I am praying for her heart, her mind, for judgment, wisdom, discernment.  I am regularly pointing her to the Lord and reminding her that if it’s the Lord’s will and the relationship has Christ at the center there isn’t anything that can stop them from being together in the future.  But if they lose that Godly focus, satan can wiggle in there and corrupt their relationship and tear them apart or worse.  His family is changing churches after this Sunday so they will see each other even less after tomorrow and especially once the school year starts.  I just pray they will be able to maintain the sweet innocence of their friendship so far and not let their feelings get too carried away.

Well, not a lot of this has anything to do with MS.  Do you see how really insignificant MS can be in my life even though I know it has a huge impact on me and my family.  I just don’t let it rent space in my brain - ha!  Well, there ARE those pesky lesions in my brain but I don’t let MS linger in my thoughts - the part of my brain I still have some control over.😉