On LM*O

You know, one could not physically laugh ones butt off. Physically impossible. I understand "laughed till I cried" or "laughed till my stomach hurt" or "laughing out loud". But laughing your hindparts off is a bit far fetched. The butt isn't even involved in the laughing process.

Just sayin.

Believe

Whenever one of my kids walks up to me and asks, "Is _____real?" whether its fairies or Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or giant mutating frogs, I simply ask, "Do you think they're real?" Nine times out of ten, the answer is an adamant, "yes." and so I say, "Then they are."

I know without a doubt that it is our beliefs that make things real. Santa is a very real person to them, to them he is real. Certain phobias don't make sense to most of the world, but to that one person who honestly believes in their fear, its very real to them. I find that one of the things I loathe most in this world is a scoffer. Someone who says, "well thats stupid" or "they aren't real" This shows a huge lack of empathy. Empathy is something that makes us very human. It allows us to put ourselves in someone elses shoes and try to understand where they are coming from. Without this ability in life we are crippled and closeminded. Nothing new can be taught to us, nothing different can be introduced because we cannot see past our own reality. Sometimes, life is so much more beautiful if we but for a moment can become apart of someone else. So at Christmas time, I believe in Santa, right along with my class, and at Easter I just know the bunny will pay a visit. Sometimes on the playground I must protect my class from giant mutating frogs, and dragons, and often when they are sound asleep at naptime, the sleep fairy comes to visit with a sticker...and when they wake up and look at me with wonder in their eyes, I know that anything in this World is possible. If I will just believe.

A God thing. Way better than a good thing.

I've done a lot of crying lately, due mainly to blessings in my life. I've watched a lot of wow-god moments happen to other people, like you could literally see the hand of God move in their life. It gave me faith, I've been searching for an answer to something for some time now, and seeing these moments happen to others has given me even more faith that God has an answer for me too in his own good time.

I have a friend who was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago. It was a really bad prognosis too. She asked the doctors, "what if I don't respond to treatment? How long do I have?" they told her two weeks. Two weeks. She had smoked all her life and so surprise! She had lung cancer. She had lung cancer but she didn't have God. She went to church but she didn't have God. I don't know how you battle something like that without him. We all prayed for her cancer, and even more earnestly prayed for her soul. Just this weekend she finally gave her life to the Lord...which was amazing! We were all ecstatic! She was overjoyed, we were overjoyed, but she still had cancer. The very next Thursday, this Thursday, she went to the doctor for her check-up....

shes cancer free.

a-ma-zing.

I hear about stories like this from other people...but I've never known anyone directly that it's happened too. This is NO coincidence. Perhaps the Lord used her cancer to bring her to him...I hope it doesn't take such extremes for everyone. It certainly didn't for me.

This is just one of some amazing stories I've been privy to this week. If he can cure cancer...he certainly can give me an answer about this concern I have in my life.

"I have no other friend beside thee, Oh Lord, won't thou keep me thine own? I need thy helping hand to guide me, for I cannot find the way alone."