Overheard: Josiah

8 year old Josiah

Josiah: Are we having a babysitter tonight?

Me: No. Why would we? [This was on Thursday]

Josiah: To celebrate survival. You know, if your family had 4 kids, you'd pick at least a day every year to celebrate survival. Especially if you're the mom.

Hmmm...I like this. I think I could celebrate survival.

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Josiah: My mother didn't raise me to be a bench!

That's probably one of the few "I didn't raise you to..." that we haven't said. I suspect Grace was trying to sit on him.

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Josiah [Looking out the kitchen window instead of concentrating on his schoolwork in front of him]: I wonder what those birds are thinking as they fly...

That pretty much sums up our week right there. Spring fever has hit!



How was your week?

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YAHWEH

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street


Take these shoes
And make them fit

Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere


Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean

Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones



Take this soul
And make it sing, sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
Teach them what to carry



Take these hands
Don't make a fist

Take this mouth
So quick to criticize
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean



This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?

Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill


Take this city
If it be your will

What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart



Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break

Yahweh by U2

Wordless Wednesday: Reflection

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Lyrical Photographs: Hold Me, Jesus

Sometimes my life just don’t make sense at all
When the mountain looks so big
And my faith just seems so small

Glacier, Montana
September 1995

So hold me Jesus, ‘cause I’m shakin’ like a leaf
You have been king of my glory
Won’t you be my prince of peace
When I wake up in the night I feel the dark


It’s so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart
So hold me Jesus, ‘cause I’m shakin’ like a leaf
You have been king of my glory
Won’t you be my prince of peace
Surrender don’t come natural to me
I’d rather fight you for something I don’t really want
Than to take what you give that I need
And I’ve beat my head against so many walls
I’m falling down, falling on my knees
God please
And the Salvation Army band is playing this hymn

Shirley's collection

And your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin
So hold me Jesus, ‘cause I’m shakin’ like a leaf
You have been king of my glory
Won’t you be my prince of peace

Listen to the song performed by Big Daddy Weave on YouTube by clicking here.
Lyrics by Rich Mullins

Check out more Lyrical Photographs at my friend Kathleen's blog, Treasured Chapters.

What a wonderful world...

Wordless Wednesday: Hmmm...

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