Gloomy turned Bright

So I am in my living room folding towells and thoughts are just running all around in my mind. They are coming so fast I hardly have time to process them. I feel like that episode of I Love Lucy when she is at the candy factory, stuffing her face with all those chocolate candies but they are just coming at her to fast, she is just overwhelmed with the amount of candies and the speed they are coming. But the funny thing is that when I come in here and sit down at the computer ready to write nothing comes to my mind. All the things that were running around in my head earlier I can't remember a single one of them now.

So, I guess I will just reflect on the day; it started out depressing and gloomy for me. I don't know what it was I just felt really down cast. Whenever I feel gloomy it is good for me to get out of the house and do something fun, so I packed up Eli and Kai and decided to go to McDonald's and then go eat at a friends house. But of course all of our friends were gone so we just ended up sitting outside of one our friends apartments and eating our lunch. It wasn't exciting fun but at least we were out of the house! So then after that we went to Walmart to do our weekly grocery shopping. I usually have a list and a calculator but this week I just kind of winged it, I didn't feel like being in bondage of a budget and list. It was fun and relaxed and I exactly felt pretty good about the numbers on the screen when we checked out. After we packed up the car with the groceries and were on our way out of the parking lot, and I am so exhausted and I am just so thankfu that it is over!, Eli asked me a question that comes out of no where,"momma" he says. "Yes" I said tiredly. "What does Malvation mean?" What, I am thinking trying to figure out what word he is trying to say and the only one I can think of is Salvation but I am like why would he be asking me that. "Salvation?" I ask. "Yeah, S-alvation, what does it mean?" I ask him where did you here that? He told me to start the song in the cd player over. So I did and in the song there are a lot of words that I am thinking why doesn't he want to know what that word means? Why did he find salvation the interesting word rather than these other words that came before. Hmmmm how do I put this in child like terms. And I know that I am going to mess up the meaning and I did but I say, "Um, well, when one day we will all pass away and when we do if we have obeyed God then we will have salvation, heaven."I added"It is a wonderful place, where Jesus lives." "Oh, okay it is a good place?", "Yes". Then he asked me to start the song over again and while we were listening to it he asks "What does Salvation mean again?" "It means after we have obeyed God....", "Oh, okay, I remember." I contued".....it is after we pass away and.....","Thats okay momma we don't have to talk about it anymore, I know what it means." Now I know that this definition that I gave may not be exactly right but he put me on the spot and now I am not even sure I know what it means. No, I do I just didn't know how to explain it to him so he would understand. Anyway, this was the highlight of my day and after this conversation I was uplifted. I was just kind of astounded at the thoughts that my little 4 year old is thinking in his head. He is always asking us questions like this. It is amazing to see the seed that you planted in your child starting to grow and branch out. I am so thankful that God gives me these little blessings to renew my mind of what my ministry is and how extremely rewarding it is going to be after all of the hard work is done tending to my little gardens!

After this we went home relaxed and then met with some good friends of ours. Eli and Kai got to swim and just have a blast, while I got to enjoy some meaningful conversation and laughter with a friend in Christ. Eli had a t-ball game at 6:15 and when he came home his daddy said he did awesome and usually he doesn't do anything but stand out in the field and pick flowers but today he chased after the ball and even got one! Right now he is drawing pictures of crabs, smiley faces, his name and other silly things that only he knows what they are. What a day, a day that started out gloomy and downcast has been turned completely around into a day full of sunshine and a beautiful rainbow! Thank you God for your wonderful promises and the work that you do in our lives, I love you and give you all the glory!

Have a blessed day in the Lord.