April 5 – “Wonderfulness … is that a word?”

I received an interesting FaceBook message from one of the church moms the other day.  It was a picture that her daughter had drawn.  Ah, but not just any picture.  This one had all the makings of a Visual Verse, the picture image rebus-style Bible verses we do every Sunday.  In fact, her Mom commented that “Emmy is trying to take your job.”  It was very well-drawn, but I couldn’t figure it out, so I asked her mom what it said.  Her comment was priceless.  “Um … I’ll get back to you on that …”  If I can figure it out, you might be seeing that one on a Sunday morning real soon.

Chris left the Island without me yesterday.  She traveled into Texas by herself to make a stop at Hobby Lobby.  Seems her scrapbooking itch has gotten the best of her.  She has been wanting to put together scrapbooks about our vacation journeys over the last few years.  I think the trip to Disneyworld will get the first nod.  She showed me a whole packet of pages with Mickey Mouse on them.  She found a Disney themed book as well.  She also found a book with the word “Adventure” on the cover.  That will certainly be appropriate for our road trip mini-vacations.  I guess before long we will have ready access to Disney and Civil War battlefields and Coon dog cemeteries and the Texas Eiffel Tower and Texas Stonehenge and Big Bend and … hey, now I’m ready to take another trip.  Options?  Well, we still want to take that Alaska cruise, maybe in August of next year.  And we have been invited to go on a cruise to the Panama Canal in 2020.  I’ve still never been to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  Or Arizona.  I hear there are some pretty amazing sites in Arizona.  Somebody spilled a lot of paint on a bunch of sand?  A big ditch of some kind?  And isn’t there a hole in the ground somewhere in New Mexico? 

It was our turn once again to play guardian to the third baseman.  Cailyn had a softball game, and both parents were at work, so we took her on over and played the crazy grandparent role.  Well, we don’t have to be all that crazy, especially in a game like last night.  They won easily.  Cailyn got hits each time she batted.  In fact her first at bat the other team shifted their defense into a look just like teams do against Astros catcher Brian McCann.  Everybody was on the left field side of second base except the first baseman.  And what does Cailyn do?  She hits the ball to right-center field for an easy single.  After the game the coach told us that he went through the books and Cailyn is something like 25 for 26 in hitting.  Been put out once.  That’s a 900+ batting average.  So, see?  We’re not the crazy grandparents.  Not us.  We’re the proud, overly braggy ones.

Psalms 44:8 says, “In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.”

Father, thank you for the wide range of wonderfulness you have placed in your creation.  Especially in the children.   Amen.