May 24 – “A Guest”

After spending some time going over the teaching for church today (a never-ending task), I joined Chris in trying to just relax a little bit.  We were going to watch a movie, but decided to wait until our guest arrived and watch it with her.  We are starting the Chronicles of Narnia again.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  Instead we flipped over to some cooking show and worked on the jigsaw puzzle. 

Nathan brought Cailyn over before supper.  She was all prepared to spend the night and go with us to church this morning.  Nathan saw our tracking sheet for mom’s blood pressure and wondered why there were no entries for an evening reading.  Actually that’s a nice way of saying he chewed her out for not taking it then.  Apparently a morning reading is inherently lower.  All that sleeping and lazing around, you know?  He charged Cailyn with making sure the blood pressure thing happened.  And then he called Cailyn to remind her to remind Nani to get it done.  The blood pressure was fine.  Low, in fact.  I think that’s one less thing to worry about. 

I mentioned the movie.  I guess Cailyn never saw the whole thing all the way through.  She almost cried when Aslan (Spoiler Alert) sacrificed himself to save Edmund.  And right about then Brennan came over to show us his new pitching target.  When we resumed the movie, Cailyn was under the impression that the kids would have to rise to the occasion and save Narnia by themselves.  And then (Major Spoiler Alert) Aslan rose from the dead.  Cailyn asked if this was one of those movies that could be Christian.  I just told her that one of Jesus’ nicknames was “Lion of Judah.”  Then I couldn’t help it.  The rest of the movie I casually pointed out some of the symbolism.  Drove her crazy.  She did like the movie, though. 

Oh, and we finished the jigsaw puzzle.  Well, Cailyn did.  She put in the last three pieces.  WooHoo.

Luke 9:23-24 says, “Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.  For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.’”

Father, would you bless our worship time today?  And we could sure use a window from the storms.  Amen.