and it feels like all is well with the world. We KNOW that the world is a big mess..... but in MY world, at least, things are at peace for the moment. I pray that peace lasts!
Today is another workday, oh joy. I do have things to start on this morning that I just didn't feel like completing yesterday. Northing critical, of course. After all, I did get a two hour 'team lunch meeting' yesterday with other executive assistants. We met up at my favorite deli. After an hour I was ready to leave, but the 'lead' executive assistant was very talkative and - LOL - she had a photo taken of the five of us EA's having lunch - and she sent it to all our executives to let them know we were having a lunch team meeting (was that to cover for us being gone so long?). LOL And now she's talking about doing these once a month. I'm game. I love food; I enjoy their company. Of course I'm the oldest one (and the wisest, of course).... and I do a lot of listening. One just turned 30; I think she is the youngest... and wild as they come. LOL
Fun continued when we got a call to join the daughter and family for dinner to celebrate a grandson in law's birthday - I love Abuelo's and so yes, we went. Enjoyed being out with family and celebrating his birthday. And I didn't have to cook dinner, although I DO have mahi mahi thawed out to cook - guess what is for dinner tonight? Oh, I may cook it for lunch..... a late lunch and then snack for dinner.... will see. I love my air fryer for this reason - just put them in there and 20 minutes later (or less) they are ready and very little mess.
My legs are telling me this morning that I worked them yesterday. I actually am glad my muscles hurt after exercise - at least I know I'm working certain parts of the body! Our trainer got sick after my appointment so cancelled on hubby (he had cancelled the day before as he was sick, but thought he ws better for me).... so hubby will be going over today after his Bible study. Unless he gets a text the trainer is still sick. Anyway - my legs are a bit sore this morning - and that's a good thing. I'll stretch them out today and will work through it.
When you tell someone something..... do you keep your word? When you say you are going to do something, do you do it, and in the timeframe you say you will? Integrity. That is what I am going to throw out as a challenge today.
When we tell our kids we will do something if they do something (or don't do something), do we follow through with the 'threat', or do we just let it fall by the way side? Sometimes it hurts to do what we say we are going to do - especially if it is a punishment we don't want to dish out. As I write that this morning I am reminded of when our youngest was in high school. He couldn't play football anymore because he was so allergic to the grass we'd have to carry him off the field. He was on all kinds of medication to help him breathe, taken to numerous doctor visits, and sometimes even the ER. Finally the doctor said he could not play football anymore.
So he switched to baseball - and loved it. But, his grades weren't that good. So, we told him, keep the grades at C or above.... get a D and you give up baseball. I don't know if he didn't believe we'd do it, or if he really tried to keep his grades up and couldn't.... but he brought home a D, and we pulled him out of baseball. It brokes our hearts to do that.
And I think he holds it against us to this day. I sometimes feel that is when he chose the 'dark side' versus following Jesus. Oh how he hated us, and begged, cried, and pleaded to be allowed to stay on the team.... but we had told him the consequences of bringing home a D, and felt we had to do what we said. I've regretted pulling him out for years... but as a parent, when we say something, we need to follow through. Regardless how painful and how hard it is.
I wasn't a perfect parent, unfortunately. Perhaps that is why my children are the way they are. I was so messed up myself during their teen years. I look back and see the depression I was living in and how I lost my life during those years. I blame it on my growing up years. After all, my mother always told me that 'the husband is head of the house and what he says is law'.... and I wanted to obey Jesus and obey Him.... but life has dealt some hard blows. I was always protective of my kids and tried to intervene in any issues.
I remember one child wanting to go to a youth function but because of hubby's fear of something happening to him, refused to let him go. My son was begging to be allowed to go and threatening to run away because he hated us so for not letting him go.... it broke my heart then, and it breaks my heart as I remember it. Those were tough years.
I wasn't strong enough to do what I should have done. I had no example to follow. I had no role model for a wife or a marriage or a family. Ah.... my mind is wandering down paths and it is nearly time to get to work .... and I need to stop going back... some things I can never change.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV): "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."
Sometimes we need to let go of the past, learn from it, and trust the Lord to take it and show us the way to walk.
God is good, and He is always faithful. In spite of the wrong paths some of us have taken, He will always bring good from it. I believe that, and am grateful that God took a young woman who allowed life to bury her, and He watered and fed me until I was able to grow again.
Sorry for the ramblings....
Blessings!
