UNEXPECTED

My mind has been pondering a good bit today.  I babysat with The Sweet Grandbaby this morning.  She, of course, has some new thing or "trick" every time I see her.  For a while she had a slight "cough" that made us wonder if it were real or a trick.  It was a trick.   At five months she has advanced to her toy that we got on consignment.  Her feet finally reach the shortest level.

So between this toy and her "frog sitter", she doesn't see the need to lie down anymore.  That might mean a nap is in order and goodness forbid that she go to sleep and miss something.  

Anyways, this day today had gotten to the middle of the afternoon.  The Girl had returned home from her work and was folding clothes on the floor while The Tired Gramma reclined on the couch.  (The Girl had a basket, she wasn't folding on a dirty floor.  Just in case you wondered at that.)  Gramma's don't have the energy they did in the horse and buggy days, it seems.  ;-)

While all this activity and non-activity was happening, The Sweet Grandbaby was quietly playing in her contraption.  All at once she looked at her mama and threw out the BIGGEST laughter I have ever heard from her voice box.  She looked straight at HER mama, not her Gramma, and seemed totally delighted.  Of course The Girl and The Gramma were totally delighted as well.

Isn't it wonderful that sometimes it takes only the small unexpected things to make one see life differently?  

What is it they say..."out of the mouths of babes"?  Thank you Lord for such small unexpected blessings that let us know you are in charge and all is well.

I VOW

The definition of "vow" says to solemnly promise to do a specified thing.

My KJV Bible says from Ecclesiastes 5:4-6: When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou 
shouldest vow and not pay.

So with those things in mind, this week I have been thinking of many things.  With a times of highs, lows, and times in between, the song that has played over and over in my heart is one that is sang by children at my church.  I first heard the song years ago on a tape and taught it to the children when I was their leader.  I am so glad they still sing it today, years later as it is one of my very favorites and helps my heart to speak what I really DO vow to my Lord.  It goes like this:

Dear Lord we vow to thank you for all the good you give
For birds and trees, for skies and seas the world in which we live.

Dear Lord we vow to thank you for family and friends,
For food and for your faithfulness, your love which never ends.

It goes on to add the all familiar "God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, He's so good to me."

So today I want to go on record to you all that I vow to thank him for everything else also...the highs, lows, and all the times in between.  I vow to thank him that He always supplies and provides and gives His all when I only have little.

I vow to love Him forever because He is my Lord and Savior.

All God's people said, "Amen".