Well I haven’t posted for the last two weeks so I guess it’s about time huh. My goals of blogging every day last week was dome for the first day. It was a great week but it was also a tiring week. For those of you interested. Hubby got a A- on his orals and then he graduated on Friday with honors. He got Magna which he was not expecting! It truly was a great week! 
Well there it is. Tune in tomorrow for a very cute wordless Wednesday post!
The big week begins!
Graduation week is here ! what a glorious idea of my husband graduating from seminary ! That will come on Friday!!!!!!!!! can you tell i am excited! Hubby is actually as we speak going through his oral exam! he has to defend his Doctrinal paper. It’s a two hour roasting by two profs.I’m glad i don’t have todo that! Though it sometimes sounds as though it would be humorous! We have our exit interviewat 11 and and then i have a lunch date with my seminary wives group and then the ladies tea tonight. so that where we are and I will post more as this exciting week progress4es talk to you soon!
Spare the Rod….
Spoil the child as the Proverb goes. being a believer I do believe in spanking. It is laid out in Scripture. However where do you draw the line. It is a thin line sometimes very gray and muddled. Unfortunately unlike some other principles and rules laid out in the Bible the idea of discipline is vague in some areas. I wish God would have laid out the things deserving of spankings and those that are just not worth the energy it takes to administer discipline. So what has prompted this post? Well it’s the culmination of many many things over the last couple of years. Probably most of all conversations with friends who also have children. Let me start off by saying that I have been blessed with two children and a third on the way. Tornado is almost two and ladybug is almost 9 months. Their names are fitting for their personalities. Tornado is a VERY strong -willed independent smart VERY active little boy. He definitely causes me to get my exercise and stay mentally sharp. Luckily I can still move a little quicker than he can though that will slowly decrease over the nest few months. He’s a great kid and very inquisitive. Lady bug is just that. She sits on the floor and plays quietly until one of three things happens, she poops, she gets tired or tornado loves her too much! Other than that you don’t even realize she is there most of the time. I have a friend who has a compliant 16 1/2 month old and has begun to alienate some friends, me included. You see she seems to think that SHE made her daughter the way she is, in which she really must realize that she had nothing to do with it and that all the constancy in the world only makes a compliant child better! However my thought go to the verse “do not provoke your children to wrath?” I have seen that in my son. And for that I am sorry! As I have discovered with a strong willed child that Eventually consistency turns into abuse, and my friend will never understand that until she has a strong -willed child of her very own. And at that point I am concerned for her child because she is not very flexible and not very understanding. I’m not perfect. And I am not so sure that “BREAKING a CHILD’S WILL” is Biblical. I don’t want to “break” my child’s determination for the main fact is that’s what will give him the drive in life to do great things. I am here to correct and guide, protect and be a good steward of the gifts God has give to Hubby and I. I am raising a child who can think for himself and not bow to every command. That is why my husband is the way he is. He had the correct balance growing up. And as a final note if you think back to the parable of the prodigal son, it is difficult for me to see who really is the prodigal son. I am willing to say that I am pretty sure that punishment was fair between the two brothers growing up. You can see that in the response to the son who complains to the dad about how he is treating the returning son, and the father said I would have done the same for you. In that case to had a compliant child and the rebellious child. But in the end of it all the rebellious child understood his wrong and repented and humbled himself to ask forgiveness but the compliant child probably lived the rest of his life in bitterness and anger. What outcome would you rather from your child? the choice is clear to me!
Guess what today is? May 4th!
Yep you guessed it today is May 4th and May the fourth be with you! In other words it’s Star Wars day! Now I really like Star Wars. I have seen all six episodes in a week. And yes I really did enjoy them. It’s funny people (my brother-in-law especially ) Will say “oh she won’t like that” and then my husband gets me to sit down and watch it. They (my husband and his brother) wouldn’t give me the chance to like Lord of the Rings either but I really like that too). I am not the typical girl. I saw all of the Star Trek movies too and they thought I would like the “whale one” because that is “what all the other girls like) Well to be completely honest I thought that was one of the dumber ones! So in the words of the Morning guys-John and Denny-may the fourth be with you!
Did you hear….
About the man who was on trial for stealing and using a stolen credit card. The man’s lawyer claimed that his (the criminal) client should have his bail lowered because he went to church. The judge taken back by such a request asked the man to quote the 23rd Psalm. When the man recited it word for word he was granted his request. Now if I were the judge I would have asked the man on trial to recite the 10 commandments and then told him that he should not have taken something that did not belong to him and that he was lucky I didn’t impose the same penalties the Old Testament called for and then said his bail stayed the same. In a similar incident a man placed a claim with his insurance company that some very expensive cigars had been burned in a series of 12 small fires. The insurance company took him to court for this invalid claim. However the judge saw it differently and granted the man his claim. Now within the week the same man was arrested for 12 counts of arson. He was tried and convicted. Now that was a great judge!