Some Sundays

Hey!

So, another Sunday has passed and little has been accomplished again. However, it seems like this weekend was really long. Our house has become a home. lol. I am sitting at the kitchen table after having cleaned the kitchen with M(?). It's nice.

Today was mainly church, but other then that me and M(?) did another work out, I read Lamentations, I played pokemon, the guys (mostly me, although WCF helped cut some potatoes and M(?) cooked the guys' steaks) cooked a meal for the girls and invited them over (I love cooking. lol)(we had steaks with a mushroom sauce and mashed potatoes (although our masher broke. lol))(I love brackets, eh?), and we watched 'Unknown' together at the girls' house (they are moving tomorrow, so they will be in the house right beside ours.(They were just temporarily in another one because the previous owners of the one they will be staying in kinda trashed the place. >.>)).

My hands smell like onions. =D

Anyways, the bulk of this post is about my musings while reading the Bible today.

This morning I was reading Proverbs 29 and a few verses stuck out to me as pertaining to my current dilemma of having to discipline the children when they misbehave. I don't like being the bad guy. >.> But sometimes they just don't listen to reason. They squirm and won't calm down and see the problem for what it is. Anyways, verses 15, 17, 19, and 21: "The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother. ... Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul. ... A servant cannot be corrected by words; though he understands he will not respond. ... If a man pampers his servant from youth, he will bring greif in the end." Not that they are our kids, or servants, but I assume these all apply. lol.

Correction is necessary and doing it sooner rather than later is obviously the better way for it to be done rather than letting it grow into a habit that is much harder to change. If they are corrected now and actually get it, it will pay off so much in the next four weeks, in the rest of their childhood, in the rest of their lives.

Secondly, while reading Lamentations I thought 'man, this is depressing. >.>' Then there were a few hopeful verses. lol.

Lam 3:22-25, 31-32
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "the Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. ... For men are not cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings greif, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love."

I hope to in the near future look online for something that will help me understand Lamentations a bit more. I figure it is a short book, so it won't take that long to at least gain some insight as to what it means because all I got from it was a lot of depressing imagery. The one sentence summary in the back of my Bible says "All Jeremiah's warnings about Jerusalem come true, and Lamentations records five poems of sorrow for the fallen city." Everything in the Bible was put there for a reason and was inspired by God, so there must be something more then just sad imagery. >.>

Anyways, I look forward to the week ahead.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS, I haven't told you about the three crows yet have I? There are three crows in the town and they have the worst sounding 'Caw's. They sound so fake, as if someone is trying to impersonate a crow... They fly around (especially at morning) near my house and they drive me insane. Also they are all very large birds. >.>