Friday, January 4, 2008
SUCCESS - Day 2
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Phew......actually made it up for the SECOND day on time....well, since I've determined to reset my body clock without an alarm clock, I'm thinkin' 5:40 instead of 5:30 still qualifies as 'on time'. Ain't God good? It's been interesting to watch small son re-discover many of the things that used to be available to him that we've had packed away for almost 3 years. He has rediscovered all his Zoobook magazines. AND his Narnia CD's. So he sits and listens to the CD's while he's looking thru the magazines....good sight to see. It's been exactly one month since we imposed marshall law in this household......banning most electronic devices. NO 'regular' tv (uh, that means for us too)....one movie from OUR 'selection' and occasionally from the library......one flick a day....but it's worked out to be more like one a week!!! NO gameboy, only his little hand held micro thing.....which he basically takes in the truck to go somewhere and forgets he has it. Just radio, books on tape, books in the hand, board games, playing outside, puzzle books, etc. And did I mention?? We set up the "family room" in the BASEMENT (out of sight, out of mind), which by the way....I think is a COMPLETE misnomer....."family" time?? sitting and watching the "devil eye" (as a friend I had once father used to say).....and the only interaction you have with each other that could be called family time is when the commercials are on (unless you have someone who likes the commercials better than the programming) or to criticize or make negative remarks about what's going on in the show?? Or to ARGUE over what to watch, who's talking over what you want to hear?? Cozy, family things like THAT?? Give me my HUGMONGOUS living room with nothing but the furniture and the ONLY thing plugged in to the walls being the lights!!! It is SO relaxing. I even think small son enjoys it. We even gave him a choice the other day of going down and watching a movie.....HE declined, saying he'd just go in his room and 'play' with something. With the door open, btw. And we asked how he was doing w/o watching regular tv programming and would he like it back?? He actually said "no". AFTER we picked ourselves off the floor, we asked why and he just said he 'likes it better this way'. Reminds me of a blog I've read recently about 'children's appetites'. What kind of appetite are we creating in our children....b/c it IS us doing it to them by what we allow. Whew, pretty convicting. You know, I've started my reading the Bible thru the Year schedule too.....and today I was reading about when Abram left Ur and all that in Gen. 10-12. You know, not much has changed today. God TOLD him to leave the land and ALL his kindred.....so, what did he do? Grabbed Lot and took him with them. Wouldn't a nephew be a 'kindred'?Now, I know Lot didn't have a father anymore and they did those types of things back then much like they do now..... But you know what really hit me in this passage?? After disobeying God, but couching it in "doing the right thing"......he goes and builds an altar to God and worships Him and calls on His name.....like God's going to ignore the fact that he 'did it his way'.....NOT God's way. And bless him and say 'that's all right, Abram, you didn't do it exactly like I wanted, but....you DID make this nice altar for me, so I figure you're really a good guy, PLUS you have such a big heart and couldn't have left Lot there all by himself, and I'm not going to do anything about it", which would make God UNjust, right?....."But God DID take care of that disobedience and many others. Ain't that just like us today?? I mean, we go ahead and do what God tells us to do, but we add a 'twist' of our own to it....OR , we just flat out do what WE want to do, then pray for blessings or ask if we should have done it or ask for 'forgiveness' later, expecting God to bless us (you know the saying, which is COMPLETELY unscriptural, btw "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission"......who teaches that to their children???.....Most of us do, by example!!! And I'm talkin' to myself here!!!)......THEN we go to church and just expect God to bless us for doing that little formal service to him at the beginning of the week. FORGET that we didn't do it the way GOD wanted us to.....we just changed it 'a little bit' and of course, that made it BETTER.......better than GOD'S way?? Yeah, all of us do that.....we just don't get the fire from heaven falling down on us as we're running away from a city being destroyed by angelic beings (wonder how we'd act if that DID happen??.....oh yeah, remember the Israelites??).....but.....if you think about it......we DO get 'chastened'. I really don't understand people who say God won't discipline them. Far too many Bible examples to make that argument wash. Old AND new testament. Just like Eve there in the garden.....exaggeration, lust.....sin. Doing it "MY WAY" (like Frank SInatra was alive back then, huh?) Hasn't changed much in all these many years. Didn't mean to get off on such a negative subject, but that's been swimmin' around in my head all morning....oh, MORNING, that's what I was talkin' about.....being on schedule. And I'm thankin' God that He's keepin' us on track!!! Denise aka The Domestic Angel |
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