Gifts from God

Amy and I were discussing some of the unbelievable ways that God moves through your life. I'll save some of that discussion for another day except to say that our girls remind us of this in some way everyday. Some days it's the intelligence they demonstrate, or the innocence, humor, companionship or one of a hundred other things. Very often it will be something that we need to be shown. Usually it's on a day when we need patience.

Wednesday night Jori got in the car after her youth group all excited. Partly because she made a new friend who she described as exactly like her (oh boy, here we go), and partly because a teacher asked if anyone wanted to give their life to Christ. Well, Jori raised her hand. She always raises her hand. She gets so excited that I think she forgets that she always raises her hand. Maybe she just see it as insurance. She's awesome though and we're thrilled that she loves Jesus.

Yesterday, Jori and I are driving to the library and the radio is on. Francesca Battastelli is singing  'Free to be Me'. If you haven't heard the song, there's a part where she sings about the battle already being won. Excellent. Jori digs this song and we have some time alone. Great opportunity for a Daddy/daughter teaching moment  right?(turns out it was-just not what I was thinking). So I ask Jori if she knows what she meant by that. I got shushed because the song wasn't over and Jor is singin' her brains out. So we are sitting in the parking lot at the library singing the rest of the song (and getting funny looks). The song ends and Jori looks at me and asks me what I want to know. She explains that the battle was between God and Satan over our souls and that we already know that Jesus fought for us and won, but that life can still be a struggle and we still make mistakes. That's what the part of the song is about when she sings about dents in her fenders and holes in her jeans.

Wow on me. Then she looks at me and says "lets go get our books".
Here's the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSQjSdU8VA
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What else is new around here? Not too much. Here's Em just bein Em...

That scarf/boa thing has been a constant part of the wardrobe for the last week. The day started with her in full Little House on the Prairie regalia...bonnet, dress, the whole shebang courtesy of Grammy. Her cousin Nicholas says that she's Emish.
She also got a perfect score on today's math test which was on multiplication of decimals when zeros are annexed....whatever that means. She did teach me how to multiple improper fractions when we were on vacation( ok- that sounded really lame), so I got that going for me.
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In case you needed more evidence that I'm not quite right......

You never know what you can do with a fruit basket and a Sharpie.

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That's enough for now, Jenna and Olivia are on their way for the pre-Christmas child swap. They are staying with us until Sunday and then we send our girls home with them until somebody makes us go get them...sorry, I mean, I think Wednesday. Should be lots of giggles in both houses this week.

Later