When you lay there in the solitude of your bed, and reflect on the day’s events. Only then do you realize the significance of each detail that composed your “life” that day. The lessons learned, the people we impacted, or those that impacted us. Just like grade school, you don’t appreciate it in the moment, but come to realize without it you’d be pretty ignorant. As I lay awake rolling life through my head, and thanking Pappa that He once again blessed me in so many ways, I realized I had just witnessed a four hour example of the Father’s love.
Jadon, my oldest, opened the front door. “holy cow”, he explained, “it’s raining so hard it sounds like the hose is on”. laughing it off, we told him to open the door wider so we could hear it. Well the fact was is it sounded like this, because one of our main sprinkler valves, right next to the house, had broke sending copious amounts of water into the air and flooding our entryway. This was not a welcome site. We had just nestled in to watch a good shoot em up flick that was just getting good and tense, but this seemed like something a little more important so I reluctantly went about repairing it. I found the problem, shut off the water to the house, and did what every red blooded, macho husband, and self respecting father would do. I called my dad. Yea, that’s what we do, because in situations like this he always knows what to do. To which, like so many times before, he volunteers to leave his comfortable ez-chair and come to my rescue. My son, who by the way loathes grade school, asked me why I called gram pa. I …read more
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