Bottle it up.....

The weekends always go by way too fast. The lay in bed and sip coffee

and wrestle with our children kinda weekends end way to soon.

 The babies are teething

and a little virus is running it's way through the walls of my home and yet I'm so

content not to miss one single moment with these loves of my life. Coop

told me God made him better because of the prayer I said for him.

I remember. I held him close and whispered a prayer before my

Father on behalf of my son. Lord bring his smile back and He did.  

Oh, thank you, Lord for healing. Thank you for the comforts of home

that we take for granted.

Sunday afternoons are good. The pace is slow as we travel home from worship.

Some still recovering, spirits kinda low.

We step into a book store and everyone cheers up. The laughter can be heard I'm sure throughout the store. The smell of new books mixed with coffee mixed with their

laughter should be bottled and sold.

It should be bottled and put on a shelf for

when they're all grown and my life becomes kinda boring.

I can un-cork that bottle and relive the moments

of pure happiness and joy of the little people in my life.

 I sit on the floor and watch them. Thankful I have them all here right now.

Knowing they're getting taller and watching them grow before

my eyes and remembering in the back of my mind this season is passing

way to fast and I ask God for grace because I know I'm going to need it as they

start making their own way in this world.

 

But right now, right this minute, I'm sitting in a book store with the gifts the

Lord has graciously lent to me and I watch my husband as he looks at their books

and holds babies and smiles at me.

I watch my son gather books about cars.

 I watch my daughter as she holds handfuls

of books and reads each back cover to me and begs me to help her

pick just two. Her love for books is contagious. She has a deep passion for 

great literature and I love watching her in a book store. 

   

The weekend over and he travels back to work and my house a mess.

I start over.

I start over a new week.

I start a week that I will never be able

to get back and so I purposely plan

to enjoy every single moment!