Late at night
It’s late at night...again. I know I should be getting to bed, but these times late at night are becoming quite regular for me and there’s something about it I’m kinda liking. I’m realizing how I do need time just to be by myself and unwind from the days activities and all the thoughts that whirl around my mind all day and if it means staying up late when I know I should be going to bed cause I need to get up for work the next morning then I guess I will. Besides, I just cleaned up my kitchen after ignoring it for the week, and my mom has lent me this awesome little Christmas tree she bought and I put lights on it and now it feels very Christmasy in my home. I followed my normal evening at home routine and lit some candles, then put on some soothing background music. After all that you just can’t crawl into bed. One needs to sit on the couch and enjoy this time.
Life is pretty good I have to say. My mind has been feeling like it’s going three billion miles a minute lately and I’ve been running around trying to catch up and I think I’m more tired now than I have been in a very long time. But tonight I feel like God is really blessing me with this life He has given me. To be able to drink tea with friends, and laugh at work, to know that I have a mom who is more than wonderful to me and even goes grocery shopping for me when I’m too busy to get there myself, and a sister who is so precious to me... and kids club, I know I’ve talked about this place already and I’ve only written three posts so this might be overkill on the kids club stuff. But consistently I’m reminded at how beautiful and faithful and what a provider and a source of love God really is through kids club. We just had our Christmas party this last week. There we were in the kids club ready to have this party and 40 kids all of a sudden showed up. It was overwhelming and I’m not going to lie to you it wasn’t the picturesque ‘fun party’ I had imagined in my head. But in the end we were all crammed into the living room and we were playing a rousing game of Simon Says, directed in the most wonderful way by Simon himself and I thought back to last years party. The apartment itself was a completely different place. Very little hung on the stark white walls, we were surrounded by a few toys we had gathered up and watched a very little tv for our Christmas movie. And now what a change. The walls are colourfully painted with hills and a sky, we have toys upon toys and decorations that hang in all sorts of random ways around our little place, we have a feeble little christmas tree that is packed with garland. Now you may walk in and think that it’s really nothing special. In fact you may walk in and think we lack alot, all our toys are second hand and we do with what we’ve got. But I’ve got to tell you that I walk in and see the amazing character of God. I have no idea how He has orchestrated this kids club. But a year later and we have a beautiful servant of Jesus who makes snacks for these kids every week, we have offers of libraries for our club, and a donation of hard earned money that will buy us a couch, we have people asking for our wish lists and offering to get us whatever they can, we have another servant who offers to take home our broken foose-ball table and fix it for the kids, we have the most faithful volunteers that come out and make time even when they don’t have to, who love on the kids despite even when it turns crazy in there, and the list just keeps on going. I don’t know, I get tears in my eyes when I think about it, and I could just keep on going but I’m realizing that I’ve written quiete a bit already and so I better wrap this up. So Merry Christmas, life is good, Jesus is faithful, and good-night...
Life is pretty good I have to say. My mind has been feeling like it’s going three billion miles a minute lately and I’ve been running around trying to catch up and I think I’m more tired now than I have been in a very long time. But tonight I feel like God is really blessing me with this life He has given me. To be able to drink tea with friends, and laugh at work, to know that I have a mom who is more than wonderful to me and even goes grocery shopping for me when I’m too busy to get there myself, and a sister who is so precious to me... and kids club, I know I’ve talked about this place already and I’ve only written three posts so this might be overkill on the kids club stuff. But consistently I’m reminded at how beautiful and faithful and what a provider and a source of love God really is through kids club. We just had our Christmas party this last week. There we were in the kids club ready to have this party and 40 kids all of a sudden showed up. It was overwhelming and I’m not going to lie to you it wasn’t the picturesque ‘fun party’ I had imagined in my head. But in the end we were all crammed into the living room and we were playing a rousing game of Simon Says, directed in the most wonderful way by Simon himself and I thought back to last years party. The apartment itself was a completely different place. Very little hung on the stark white walls, we were surrounded by a few toys we had gathered up and watched a very little tv for our Christmas movie. And now what a change. The walls are colourfully painted with hills and a sky, we have toys upon toys and decorations that hang in all sorts of random ways around our little place, we have a feeble little christmas tree that is packed with garland. Now you may walk in and think that it’s really nothing special. In fact you may walk in and think we lack alot, all our toys are second hand and we do with what we’ve got. But I’ve got to tell you that I walk in and see the amazing character of God. I have no idea how He has orchestrated this kids club. But a year later and we have a beautiful servant of Jesus who makes snacks for these kids every week, we have offers of libraries for our club, and a donation of hard earned money that will buy us a couch, we have people asking for our wish lists and offering to get us whatever they can, we have another servant who offers to take home our broken foose-ball table and fix it for the kids, we have the most faithful volunteers that come out and make time even when they don’t have to, who love on the kids despite even when it turns crazy in there, and the list just keeps on going. I don’t know, I get tears in my eyes when I think about it, and I could just keep on going but I’m realizing that I’ve written quiete a bit already and so I better wrap this up. So Merry Christmas, life is good, Jesus is faithful, and good-night...
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