Only one life

Holiday reading. Jay thought he'd join in this time:

and meanwhile Joshua actually said he'd finish the dishes for me (totally his idea) ! I must say I had to get this on on camera. And check it out - he's actually smiling! Love, love LOVE it!

Well so far we have pottered about the house, Josh had a go at a Lego building Challenge in local shopping centre, stocked up on library books, we've had fun with an apple slinky machine and now Josh is off camping with Grandma! Haven't ventured too far with snoggly noses and barking coughs:)

I have found that the children just love for me to join them outside - to swing them on our tree swing, to lift up their legs onto the swinging bars, to lie in the grass while they jump all over me, to show me their goofy antics and when they turn ten to try out their new song lyrics :) Can't help but think of how quickly life passes and how important is the here and now...

When Papa arrived home tonight he said there was a car accident which blocked up the road a very long way in both directions. The cause: a fatal car accident. Someone didn't make it home from work. I guess you can see how my thoughts travelled?

Only one life, t'will soon be past.

Only what's done for Christ will last.

More Changes

Change. There has been a lot of it in our lives lately. Putting our Joshua in school (the sort you have to drive them to and let them sit with a bunch of other kids behind desks), trivial things like a pair of glasses for me (discovered I might just need some when squinting to see smaller print), Daddy starting work in the city (for the first time in our married life he now works outside the home!) watching my baby go from crawling to walking, discovering that my first born is not too far from adolescence and ... the list goes on.

Hmmm... some change I welcome, other things I am still adjusting to. I'll probably just begin to adjust by the time the next big change arrives. Sometimes change leaves me with that knotted- stomach-type-feeling. At other times I embrace it, like something new and treasured. And so I find myself at the present with all sorts of up and down feelings. What I love most is the certainty of Christ. Even though I age (squinting at small things, starting to look a more 'motherly' and less young and lithe... well maybe I just never was lithe, but you get my point...) and though I cannot stop (and really, would I always want to?) the changes around me.... I relish the fact - NO - I am satisfied, completely satisfied in the fact that Christ , MY Christ is still so very much the same as when I first came to know Him.... or rather as even Eve, the 'mother of all living' found him! The Lord don't change at all! Amen and Amen!