The Importance of Prayer April 30, 2008
Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , 3commentsMy blog at Reformedblogs has a cool little filter on it that lets you know how many spam it has caught for you. I think it’s too bad we don’t have lots of those in real life ~ wouldn’t it be awesome and motivating if in real life you were notified when you did something right and thereby avoided a big big problem? For example, you wash your hands and a message pops up on the mirror “Good news: you just averted a nasty stomach flu that would have ravaged your family for the next two weeks” or you stay home on a snowy evening and the news that night features a story “5 Person Fatality Avoided on the Interstate Because Carpe Banana had the Brains to Keep Her Car in the Garage”? That sort of thing.
But for the life of me I cannot imagine what sort of crisis this stable and praying penguin is averting, however, seeing he is wearing his little sailor cap, I hope he is not thwarted.
Sun, Clouds, Stars, and Pepper April 30, 2008
Posted by carpebanana in : Bananalets , 1 comment so farSome kids are the reverse of bottomless pits and give a lot back. Mr Music is one of these overflowing wells. Tonight, tucking him in I told him, “I love you more than the moon.” He shot back, “I love you more than the sun and the clouds.”
As Mary says on It’s A Wonderful Life when George offers to lasso the moon for her, “I’ll take it.”
He has always been good at sharing his vantage point on the world. Way back when he was two, one summer dusk, he reached his little hand as high as it would go, looked up, and solemnly said, “I will hold my hand up until a single star falls into it.” (It was the “single” that I loved.) And then a few months later, he caught sight of a huge, distant flock of blackbirds, and said, “Look, flying pepper.”
I think God wants us to give back what He has given us, to share it with Him like this. Thank you, God, for the sun and clouds. Thank you for stars and flying pepper. Thank you for children who overflow with love.