Just as a short little post because I know I haven't been doing it much. Robert is feeling better. He started back to work (kinda) on Monday. His whole group that came back is going through classes to help with the transition. Robert says it's mainly geared toward young guys on not drinking and driving. Please continue to pray for him during this transition. While he doesn't have the same struggles as those young single soldiers, he has different ones of the family man. We didn't expect things to be easy. Although we both agree they have been easier (so far) than we expected. That first week was bad, but things are going better now. Just because he is a psychologist doesn't mean he's immune to the average problems in adjusting to the real world, it just means he has to be aggressive about getting help before he helps others. He has a great man of God that he has met with a couple of times to pray with and get help with the stronger emotions. And obviously I have prayed over him a few times and done what is possible. Mainly I see my calling as providing a safe loving home for him to be in. Clean house, warm meals, cuddling and kisses, obediant children, and lately some serious Parks and Recreation marathons after bedtime. : ) (Although, I would say all those things are the primary calling for ALL wives.) So prayers are needed, Thank you!
A while back I started this post about a sermon series that I listened to. It's by John Piper and is centered around marriage according to the gospel. I found it wonderful because it was about something I had been thinking on a lot. Mainly about how marriage is created to mirror the covenant between Christ and the church. I love it mostly because it isn't a self-help series on how to change your spouse. Truly it was a really great series. So I thought I would share it in case anyone felt like listening to it! This series was not organized well on his website. So I had to go through and copy and paste each individual sermon. http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/staying-married-is-not-about-staying-in-love-part-1 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/staying-married-is-not-about-staying-in-love-part-2 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/marriage-god-s-showcase-of-covenant-keeping-grace http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/marriage-forgiving-and-forbearing http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/marriage-pursuing-conformity-to-christ-in-the-covenant http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/lionhearted-and-lamblike-the-christian-husband-as-head-part-1 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/lionhearted-and-lamblike-the-christian-husband-as-head-part-2 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/the-beautiful-faith-of-fearless-submission http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/marriage-is-meant-for-making-children-disciples-of-jesus-part-1 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/marriage-is-meant-for-making-children-disciples-of-jesus-part-2 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/what-god-has-joined-together-let-not-man-separate-part-1 http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/what-god-has-joined-together-let-not-man-separate-part-2
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Well, we are doing alright here. But Robert is not doing well. He injured his back a couple days before he got home and that has been causing him a lot of pain. Then about 36 hours after he got home he started feeling ill. Severe stomach pain, nausea, weakness, all along with his back pain. We believe that it is probably a bad case of jetlag that is made worse by some pretty intense anxiety and emotions from being back here. I'm very happy that he is here and that I can care for him during this. We are going to get out for a walk later today and see if some sunlight will brighten his spirits some. : ) He slept very little last night because of the stomach pain and so he is trying to sleep now. I hope those of you that are excited about talking to him on the phone will understand that he hasn't answered it at all for anyone. Him and I haven't even gotten to talk as much as we would like. But it is temporary and will all be a memory one day.
Okay so this has been more exciting than waiting for a new baby and more frustating than waiting to go into labor!! Losing my mind! But it's here! HE is here. By the grace of an amazing God my husband is home and back in my arms! I went to the ceremony without the kids. We are hoping to grab some dinner and hang out for a bit and then head home to surprise the kids who only know that Daddy should be home sometime in the next couple of weeks. They think I went out with a girlfriend! I will hopefully get some good pictures of them being surprised and video too. If I can figure out how to load the video onto youtube, then I will post it as soon as possible!
I really like Pandora! Every morning while I cook breakfast my phone sits on my phone speaker dock (that is a whole other ode to.... post, love that thing!) and we listen to my Waterdeep station. I mainly create stations with a specific artist in mind. This station is inspired by the amazing worship music of Waterdeep. I've often tried to start the day with one of my other stations but it just never works. I gotta start with the Waterdeep sound. We eat breakfast listening to it and do our morning Bible study while listening too. After I clean up breakfast and we clean upstairs well, we head downstairs to start schooling. Then we turn Pandora on the computer. Typically to Kids worship or, more recently, Radio for Kids, which is a Pandora built station. But the great thing about those is that as long as you give thumbs up and thumbs down, your Kids Radio station looks different than anyone elses! My kids LOVE to announce if a song deserves a thumbs up or down. I've made a rule that it has to be unanimous or we just leave the song alone. So our Kids Radio station is a lot of oldies, Tangled songs, and The Muppet Movie soundtrack songs. (By the way, almost all the songs from The Muppet Movie were written by Brett from Flight of the Conchords!!! Genius.) So when we have been working for too long and the song from Madagascar "I like to Move It Move It" comes on we take a dancing break. And then on some days when Darby is having a really hard time focusing we have to turn off Pandora. : ( Later when I'm cleaning. Scrubbing the bathroom floor of little boy pee or sweeping the kitchen or vacuuming or dusting I have to listen to my Trip Lee station. He is currently my favorite gospel rap artist. Deakin typically breaks out his moves for all of our entertainment. Our other stations include a Flame station (which is another gospel rap artist), Toddler radio for a more young selection, and my David Crowder station. And just as a cute little fact, Cal is a BIG thumbs up giver. He must be an eternal optimist or just really love music. And just for fun, here is what is playing right at this moment that we like a lot! And one of my favorite Trip Lee songs. "All I Need is One Sixteen! To brag on my King, Romans 1:16! " Have a great day everyone! I have several posts saved that I'm slowly working on but don't feel ready to post any of them. But I know I'm not posting much lately. Seems like life is sorta boring lately. But I know some of our family likes any update so I thought I would just do a boring update. ; )
A friend sent the kids $5 Sonic gift cards each for Christmas and you would've thought they won the lottery! Ha! So the other day after a very productive day of homeschooling we decided to go to Sonic. I was just going to let Cal get a drink because Sonic is one of the ONLY restaurants that hasn't created an allergen menu or even released their ingredients so that you can read them and figure out what is without your allergen. This has always been so sad for me because I do so love their tator tots. And also we live in a small town with barely any place to eat when in a hurry. We do Freddie's and Arby's and that is about it! So when we were there the other day I thought I would check just to make sure that they hadn't gotten their act together and printed an allergen menu. WELL!! They had! Like, real recently! And guess what!? Not only are their tator tots dairy free but their onion rings are too!! Ha! It was a great day. Thank you Sonic. We have finally gotten back into a nice groove with lessons. Darby's attitude has been good and she has been working hard and I have been staying up on my work for it too. We still pray every morning for it though. Lord knows what a huge calling He has given such a slow mama. But He does so like to work through the weak. Both of the girls got their Book It coupons in the month of December for the first time. So we went to Pizza Hut. Which means me and boys get a hand tossed (only crust that is DF) without cheese. Also, I remembered that their breadsticks are DF but then when we started eating them I thought, yeah, I'm wrong. After looking it up I was, in fact, mistaken. Papa John's breadsticks are the ones that are DF not Pizza Hut. But I thought, oh well, it will be a good test to see if either of them had outgrown their allergy. They hadn't. Both were vomiting and diarrheaing within a few hours. It lasted a few days. Which was bad. And, ofcourse, Deakin was worse. He threatened with dehydration and wouldn't drink anything from a cup, only wanted to nurse. That was almost two weeks ago. We have been slowly organizing and deep cleaning the house for Robert's return. He has the whole month of March off and we are planning a family vacation in Branson! I guess the last time we went anywhere as a family was a few days to Atlanta, GA the weekend after Jasper's death. And that was just a couple of days. So we are excited to spend some time together. Branson was the kids' first choice. And we are hoping to go to Silver Dollar City on their opening day before heading back home. We are also hoping to get away, just mommy and daddy! That is still in the planning stages. Also, on a not so boring note, Robert is getting out of the Army in August! That is sort of a recent decision that the Lord made easy for us. As far as what comes after August, do us a favor. Ask God and let us know what He says! Ha! Seriously though, we are in deep prayer and searching for what He has for us next. He has a plan for His glory and we want to be a part of it! On my trip home from Arkansas back in November (yes, it takes me that long to finish a blog post!) I was listening to the new Propaganda album. Which I've found to be pretty heavy. I have to listen to his songs a few times to get them and even then it's iffy. Anyway, he has this song called "Precious Puritans" that is so good! It makes you uncomfortable and makes you think and then after I read this http://www.joethorn.net/2012/09/24/precious-puritans-pt-1/ and this http://www.joethorn.net/2012/09/25/precious-puritans-pt-2/, I liked the song even more. The first link is about how the puritans accepted slavery. The second link is Propaganda speaking about what the song means. Here is an excerpt of the song:
They got it but they didn’t get it. There’s not one generation of believers that figured out the marriage between proper doctrine and action. Don’t pedestal these people, your precious puritans partners purchased people. Why would you quote them? Step away. Think of the congregation that quotes you. Are you inerrant? Trust me I know the feeling. It’s the same feeling I get when people quote me. Like, if you only knew! I get it. But I don’t get it. Ask my wife. And, it bothers me when you quote puritans, if I’m honest, for the same reason it bothers me when people quote me–they precious propaganda. So, I guess it’s true. God really does use crooked sticks to make straight lines. Just like your precious puritans. In the interview he says the song was meant to be a bait and switch. He actually does enjoy learning from the Puritans but wanted to warn against thinking they had it all figured out. I love how he ends it with pointing back at people quoting himself and calls himself "Their precious Propaganda". This song plays in my mind at strange times now. When someone tells me I'm such a good mom and asks my advice I think "I get it, but I don't get it." How unworthy am I to give advice. Whom of us really gets it?! Jesus, he's the only quotable. For now we have to settle for crooked sticks that GOD makes straight. I was reading in 1 Samual the other day. About the story where the Philistines stole the Ark and wanted to give it back because God was basically torturing them. They decided that they would figure out if the Ark was legit by putting two cows that had never been on a yoke to pull it. They would see where it went. If it wandered then they knew that their torture was a coincidence and if the cows took it straight back to the Isrealites then they knew that the Ark was directed by God (actually I think they thought the Ark was the god of the Isrealites). When the ark went straight back to the Isrealites without ever turning to the left or right they knew. When the Ark got back the Isrealites sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering. I found myself slightly sad, thinking, "But they should reward the cows for getting the Ark home!" Lol!! I think this reveals in me a inclination to praise the tool rather than the Lord. As if there was something special about the cows. When the cows were only made special because God chose to use them. In one of the questions in the interview with Propaganda he said something about how we shouldn't be praising people and thinking they have it all figured out. But amazed that our God is so good that He can use these imperfect sinful people! That we shouldn't say, "Wow, Propaganda!" but "Wow, God! And He used Propaganda?!" How important is it for us to praise and realize that our God is so praise worthy for being able to use crooked sticks to make straight lines. Obviously these are all imprefect thoughts from a crooked stick. ; ) |
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