Mama rocks the craddle
just like that
mama rocks the craddle
where you lay on your back .
Just like that, just like that
mama rocks that craddle with a smile while you nap.
Mama wears a halo
you wear a hat
she put it on your head
just like that.
Just like that, just like that
with the bow in the middle and the tag in the back.
Mama always loves you
mama always will
mama blows you kisses from the window sill
Just like that, just like that
mama blows you kisses and you always blow them back
to your mama to your mama who taught you love's soundtrack.
weak end rhyme I know but after batting this one around in my head for the last couple of days I just had to finish it.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Vegetables and love
Contentment ... gratitude ... joy.
vs.
37 weeks pregnant, tired and hormonal
Tonight as I dished up a steaming bowl of soup made with all the veggies that had gotten less so by spending too much time in the "Crisper" I looked at each family member and my heart burst with joy.
Eliannah with her black eye, Eliot's mischievious grin, Zak's pale face (I think he has the flu) covered in a weeks worth of freckles ...
I could also see that past them, out our sliding glass door, were a couple pots of pink geraniums and an exuberant pot of flame colored succulents about to burst into bloom.
In that moment it seemed to me that "somewhere over the rainbow" was closer than I had ever imagined and might just be beyond our backyard fence.
I guess Paul was right when he told Timothy that "godliness with contentment is great gain" (I Tim 6:6) and Solomon when he said, "Better a meal of vegetables where there is love ..." (Proverbs 15:17) because tonight I found that by letting go of what I want and embracing what I've been given I can find joy, peace and love in the bottom of my vegetable soup.
vs.
37 weeks pregnant, tired and hormonal
Tonight as I dished up a steaming bowl of soup made with all the veggies that had gotten less so by spending too much time in the "Crisper" I looked at each family member and my heart burst with joy.
Eliannah with her black eye, Eliot's mischievious grin, Zak's pale face (I think he has the flu) covered in a weeks worth of freckles ...
I could also see that past them, out our sliding glass door, were a couple pots of pink geraniums and an exuberant pot of flame colored succulents about to burst into bloom.
In that moment it seemed to me that "somewhere over the rainbow" was closer than I had ever imagined and might just be beyond our backyard fence.
I guess Paul was right when he told Timothy that "godliness with contentment is great gain" (I Tim 6:6) and Solomon when he said, "Better a meal of vegetables where there is love ..." (Proverbs 15:17) because tonight I found that by letting go of what I want and embracing what I've been given I can find joy, peace and love in the bottom of my vegetable soup.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
nesting
Friday, March 13, 2009
a coupla old friends ...
Even though I started it early Pilgrim's Progress is my book of the month for March. I must have read this book 5 or 6 times growing up and it never fails to challenge, convict and motivate me. Granted, there are a few tiny theological disagreements I have with Mr. Bunyan but I love to interact with a book that I don't totally agree with. It keeps me from being a bobble head.
Another book that I am just starting is "The Fisherman's Lady" by George_Macdonald. In case you don't know, G.M. was a huge literary figure about the same time as Tolkien and C.S. Lewis but I guess because he didn't write fantasy his works have sunken into oblivion. I read a lot of his novels in high school and even though I'm not fond of the Gothic novel as a genre I think that all of his stories are fantastic pictures of everyday relationships. I always learn so much about simple faith, simple love and the beauty of a simple story.
If you can get your hands on an ancient copy before Michael Pella edited them all for today's reader you will be in for a treat. G.M. wrote the dialogue with all the beauty of Robert Burns in "light Scottish" and it adds so much to the story.
Over the summer I read "The Princess and the Goblin" to the kids (way over Eliot and Eliannah's head) and we listened to "The light princess" (which has got to be the most ironically beautiful kid's book ever written) on CD on our way to Washington D.C. I also recently read them "The Lost princess" which is a book every little girl needs to have read to her (the one I borrowed from my mother-in-law was illustrated beautifully and more age appropriate to the little ones).
Have you read any George MacDonald books? If so, which was your favorite and why?
Another book that I am just starting is "The Fisherman's Lady" by George_Macdonald. In case you don't know, G.M. was a huge literary figure about the same time as Tolkien and C.S. Lewis but I guess because he didn't write fantasy his works have sunken into oblivion. I read a lot of his novels in high school and even though I'm not fond of the Gothic novel as a genre I think that all of his stories are fantastic pictures of everyday relationships. I always learn so much about simple faith, simple love and the beauty of a simple story.
If you can get your hands on an ancient copy before Michael Pella edited them all for today's reader you will be in for a treat. G.M. wrote the dialogue with all the beauty of Robert Burns in "light Scottish" and it adds so much to the story.
Over the summer I read "The Princess and the Goblin" to the kids (way over Eliot and Eliannah's head) and we listened to "The light princess" (which has got to be the most ironically beautiful kid's book ever written) on CD on our way to Washington D.C. I also recently read them "The Lost princess" which is a book every little girl needs to have read to her (the one I borrowed from my mother-in-law was illustrated beautifully and more age appropriate to the little ones).
Have you read any George MacDonald books? If so, which was your favorite and why?
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