Archives for June 2008

Our funny neighbor

June 3, 2008 by Amy 2 Comments

I think I might have written about our elderly neighbor before. He’s not in good health and is probably in his late 80s. He still gets around outside though most days and we always like to chat with him. He’s a Christian man that actually goes to our church. He says the funniest things, though, usually cracking on his wife or even on Scott.

Scott said today he had a conversation with him about a fatality on a motorcycle Scott worked on Tuesday. Mr. F says “Those motorcycle are dangerous. I’d rather ride a woman than a motorcycle…and they’re mean!”

Lexi’s Alphabet Song

June 2, 2008 by Amy 3 Comments

Lexi still isn’t singing the alphabet…I just asked her to and she mixed two different songs and then just grinned…

“A B C D E F G Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?”

At least she rhymed.

Overheard…

June 2, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

I randomly hear Emma and Lexi playing store in her room just now and Emma says to Lexi, exasperated, “It’s not on sale this week! It will be next time!” I maayy have said something like that a time or two.

My testimony

June 2, 2008 by Amy 4 Comments

My testimony is a little fuzzy. I have no date marked in a Bible or person that I prayed with that might remember. But the time that always stands out is when I was about 7, lying on a couch in our church (a very small church which met in a living room in a house) and asked Christ to come into my heart. I “got saved” 182,000 times after that. I can’t count the number of times I asked Christ in my heart. My fellow Southern Baptists would say just the first time counted. My pentecostal roots might say just last week I got saved again. I believe I have been saved since I was 7.

But to me, my testimony is not when I got saved, but how God has kept me so close to him for 22 years. I humbly say I was kept from many “pitfalls” as a teenager. Since childhood, I believe I have been bearing many fruits of the Spirit and with every trial as well as celebration, Christ has been with me. He has blessed me beyond words. Sure I’ve been closer to Him at times more than others but my real testimony is this…

Hebrews 13:5 “Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with such things that you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you, nor forsake you,’

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Phillipians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

To read others’ stories, check out Heather@Desperately Seeking Sanity

The school thing

June 1, 2008 by Amy 8 Comments

Thursday night after Emma’s preschool graduation ceremony Scott and I had a quick but serious conversation about Emma and school. I think we’re going to look into a few local private Christian schools for her to go to.

I realized at that ceremony Thursday that public school was going to be so different. No more praise songs as closing ceremonies. No more prayers. No more pledges to Bibles and Christian flags. No more (publicly) Christian teachers lining the halls. No more Bible Stories. No more Christian environment. In fact, in some cases, they’d be teaching exactly opposite of what we believe. I have never been a huge advocate of private Christian schools but for some reason both Scott and I felt like maybe it is something we need to look into.

And then randomly, Heather spouts out this weekend that Mom has been thinking the same thing.

Coincidence? I doubt it.

We had cousins that went to a private school and they did fabulously. One is now a lawyer while the other is going to be a nurse. They both moved away for college and have done great. I’ve also known a handful of other kids who “turned out bad” even though going to Christian schools.

I was taught completely in public schools and I think I did well education wise and it didn’t “damage me” too bad socially or spiritually. There’s something to be said for plopping a person right in the middle of everything you don’t want them to know just if, for nothing else, a teaching moment or even the ability to adapt to a world that will never be exactly the way you’d choose.

I’m really torn. We have some of the best schools in the state. People move here for our schools. It’s 3 minutes from my house. It’s free. I realize we would be setting the standard for what to believe and not to believe and not the school.

But then, there was that ceremony. Where a group of 40 kids stood together and praised God as part of school. And it wasn’t even a side note. A moment. God was the center of that ceremony. And my mom grew up where they said the Lord’s prayer and I grew up where there wasn’t so many sinful things running so rampant and so blatantly public. Where God meant more than political correctness.

It’s just not the same these days.

Yes, our job as parents is to raise our children to know God but there’s something to be said when the people they spend the majority of their time with every week has the same message as you instead of you double-checking and fighting many viewpoints and attitudes.

At 5K per year vs. free, it’s something to SERIOUSLY consider. I don’t know what we’ll end up doing but I do know we’re going to spend some time this week looking into it.

If you so choose, I’d like to hear your opinion on the public vs. private school–not what you think of OUR decision–but if you’ve had experience or have some strong opinions with public vs. private, I’d like to know.

FYI, homeschooling has been thought of. For many reasons, I just don’t think that’s the path we want to go down and I’ll leave that there.