It Was A God Thing

This weekend our church has a community outreach program call Love Your Neighbor going on. We are participating in a variety of community service type projects and just doing random acts of kindness.

Chase had his first soccer game this morning and I was going to have to take him by myself while Shelley and Seth went to an apartment complex to pass out Easter baskets and conduct an Easter egg hunt. The forecast was for it to be bitterly cold so Shelley suggested I take some hot chocolate to the game and pass it out. It fit perfectly into the theme of our weekend but WAY out of my comfort zone.

Chase and I were the first to arrive from our team at the game and it was bitterly cold. We got there just as the game in front of us was ending and the families were leaving. Just then a man walked up to me with 2 containers of hot chocolate left over from the first game and offered them to me for our team.

So, God was not going to let me sit in my comfort zone and there I was passing out hot chocolate. :-)

Littering

The other night we were in the parking lot at church and I was trying to get the boys unloaded from the car. Chase had fallen asleep so I was carrying him and was in the process of helping Seth down from the truck when the wind blew a piece of paper out of the car. I asked Seth to track it down when we had this exchange.

Seth: Why?
Me: We don't want to litter.

Seth captured the piece of paper.

Seth: What is littering?
Me: It is when we throw trash down on the ground.
Seth: Is it illegal?
Me: Yes.
Seth: What can happen?
Me: They can make us pay a fine but also God doesn't like it either.
Seth: But God saw the wind blow it out. He knows it was an accident.

I then had to explain that it was only littering if you left the trash on the ground...

Shelley, I love you because..

You took a chance on me.
You brought me to Christ.
You gave me the 2 most precious sons.
You make me laugh.
You are beautiful.
You have a wonderful heart
You put up with me.
You are spunky
You are willing to do anything for our family.
You have a great sense of humor.
You love Elvis
You go to birthday parties
You are my everything..