Yesterday we did hardly anything. I was completely exhausted from being up all night with Elijah. Once awake I noticed some facebook entries asking for prayers for Japan. Then, curious and unaware, I clicked msn news and read about the devastation. Off to the family room, where we spent a good deal of our day watching cnn and msnbc. In fact, Gracie can now site facts about earthquakes and can tell you how they work and what a tsunami is and how it’s formed.
Facts are fine, good, but really not important. The important were the lives. People. Families.
All caught in the midst.
It’s hard to explain this to kids when one as an adult doesn’t understand it either.
I had no answers for them. I just told them to pray.
Days like that shift perspective. The “annoyances” of daily life are no longer taken for granted — they become the beautiful. Treasured. Time is short. Finite. These moments stop and redirect my heart back to seeking the beauty, laughter, an attitude of content, and hope in the everyday.
I just wish that it didn’t take days like that to remind my heart to remember.
So today, even with the tiredness in my body and the endless list of things to do I am going to remember. As I buy groceries, and wipe noses, and make a peanut butter sandwich, and clean the toliets, and make dinner, and sweep the floor, and fold the clothes, and drive to ballet, and make my bed, and pick up lincoln logs, and write this post, and brush snow off the car, and clean the boys’ room, and water the plants, and wash those dishes. Those things are life’s gifts.
I am grateful.
Join me in praying for Japan. Please.
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Yes you are so right. Praying for all of Japan and that Joni and Melanie are ok too.
The kids and I got down on our knees and prayed after we talked about what natural disasters were. I’m so glad their hearts were hurting for the Japanese people. It shows that they care.
I totally agree with you. Yesterday’s news totally put a lot of things into perspective for me. I felt guilty though for celebrating the mundane gifts of my day. It’s crazy how your heart and spirit condition and cope when you know there are so many hearts aching.
Your posts are lovely. I’m glad I stumbled upon it!
You are so right. These things in life, the mundane and routine, we are truly blessed to have them. I am praying hard for Japan, and the rest of the world.
It sure is quite the wake up call. I too am praying for Japan.
Yesterday I wrote a letter to all my non Christian family and friends requesting them to take another look at Jesus. To examine their lives, look at the times and think about what it all means.
The birth pains are increasing and I wonder…
Still prayin for Samuel.
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i seriously cannot get the grave images from my mind. it’s so heartbreaking. especially when you know people there; i’ll continue to pray for your friend. may the hope of Christ shine brightly in Japan through all of this!
In tears, all I can say is well spoken…
I was still up when coverage of the devastation started. How do you go to sleep after that? Especially knowing that a tsunami is heading toward Hawaii and they have no idea how bad it’s going to be? And sitting there watching the water washing away burning homes…and cars…how does a brain wrap itself around that? And now the nuclear plants! What’s happening with those?!
Whatever the Lord allows to happen in your life, He’ll get you through! Praying!
Psalms 91:9-12 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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