Rainy Days!

I usually love rainy days especially the ones where I get to lay in the bed and listen to the rain fall. But then there are days I don't like the rain so much, days like today when I am laying here next to my almost 20 yr old daughter talking about the rain and how she will have to fly back to Texas in the rain. She just commented "I'm pretty sure my flight won't be delayed, but if this was Dallas it for sure would be" see in Texas everyone and I mean everyone gets all upset and starts stressing at the slightest weather. You oughta see Texans when it snows or actually when it snows freezing rain cause that's usually what you get in the south is just freezing rain that keeps the smart people from driving and the not so smart people setting at a traffic accident or in a ditch.

I keep thinking as the months go by taking my first born to the airport will get easier but for some reason it is getting harder. She turns 20 next Wednesday and it will be the first birthday that we haven't spent together but we had us a time this past Tuesday celebrating as if it was the actual day. My kids are remarkable Kim has become an adult had to do alot of growing up fast learned to live the fast paced life of juggling many college hours multiple design projects Dallas traffic and so on but manages her life with amazing finess. And my Kylee whose 14 and a Talawanda HS cheerleader and celebrating her first HS Homecoming this weekend is equally remarkable.

So as I contimplate my life this morning and the things I love most in this life I celebrate my God and my King who has given me the greatest gift He could give when He gave me His Son who left all of heaven to come and die for me. I am putting my kid on a plane in 3 hours and my heart is breaking in two can you imagine what it must have been like the day Jesus left heaven knowing He was coming to earth to pay for our sin. Thanks God for loving me that much.

Take time out today to celebrate what God did for us by giving us His Son and then take time and celebrate your kids hug em laugh with em call em email em even text them (they really like that) then get on your knees and tell God thanks for the lives He has entrusted us with as parents. They grow up really fast - teach them well - teach them about Jesus and tell them you love them every day many times over.

Oh and if you read this before 12:30 please throw some prayers up for Kim a safe fight and maybe even one for me who always cries after I see Kim walk through that security center.

See you in worship as we "get" to celebrate our King together.