Dinner with Friends

This evening we go to Clay and Marie's for dinner. That will be a treat. We were invited a couple of weeks ago but had to decline, due to me being ill.
Today they want us over. I look forward to getting out to see friends.
I am such a home body, It is a wonder I ever leave this house. When the weekend comes, neither of us want to leave. We say, "Lets just set or get work done here and relax."
We need to get to YC, we have two huge pumpkins on our porch that five little children would love to have. They each weigh in excess of 35 lbs. They can sit a while there, as it is cool outside now. Not cold by any means but cool enough to drop the pool temp to the low 60's. Burrrrrr
I am a little sad lately, I usually see my daughter on but she started a night job, or evening job, at a library. She is a "hot" librarian, (and I am quoting my Son in law.)
Well actually he is right, she is so pretty with big blue eyes and an adorable smile. You can see her at www.Theshadesofpink.blogspot.com . I have always thought she was beautiful. So when a person tells us we look alike I just never saw me in that light.
On Saturday, a cousin of hers, (on Mikes side of the family), was visiting here from Tennessee. As she walked into the kitchen I told her how nice it was to meet her and she then informed me.
"I was told if I tell you, you look like Sheri, you will say, "Oh no she is beautiful, I never see me that way".
She then said, "So yes she does look like you and you are beautiful." Ahhhhh
Made me feel good. So either Sheri I look 37 or you look 62. LOL
So back to the subject at hand. She is working about 4 hours an evening at a Huge library and loving every minute of it. This is right up her alley. She is a home school Mom and a Darn good one at that.
Home schooling, That word used to send shivers down my spine. It is a scary commitment. And it must be a commitment. It has to take every waking hour to teach and learn. We all, as Mamas do that anyway. Why cant we teach them about Reading writeing and Arithmetic? We can! She can! Not me, I am not sure I would have the patience. They know so much more than I ever did at their ages. The world is so changed.
And it has changed in good ways, (in some instances). We all need to spend more time with our children, Spend time teaching them what they need to know to survive in this world. Teaching them about the Bible and History should include creation. That is the beginning of history. They get this start early in life and now they are being taught, (as early as second grade) alternate life styles as being acceptable. We as parents have to stop this, We have to really listen to our children, their little minds absorb everything. Don't let them absorb the wrong information and find it acceptable. That begins the slow fade into acceptance of every evil in the world. We are getting sesensitized.
I heard a song by Casting Crowns, that is so fitting with today's needs. A song so old, yet so new. As a child I sang the song. Oh be careful little eyes what you see, etc.
Casting Crowns added new lyrics and made it their own, and I love it.

The Altar and the Door

Slow Fade

Be careful little eyes what you see

It's the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings

Be careful little feet where you go

For it's the little feet behind you that are sure to follow

It's a slow fade when you give yourself away

It's a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray

Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid

When you give yourself away

People never crumble in a day

It's a slow fade, it's a slow fade

Be careful little ears what you hear

When flattery leads to compromise, the end is always near

Be careful little lips what you say

For empty words and promises lead broken hearts astray

It's a slow fade when you give yourself away

It's a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray

[ Casting Crowns Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]

Thoughts invade,choices are made, a price will be paid

When you give yourself away

People never crumble in a day

The journey from your mind to your hands

Is shorter than you're thinking

Be careful if you think you stand

You just might be sinking

It's a slow fade when you give yourself away

It's a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray

Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid

When you give yourself away

People never crumble in a day

Daddies never crumble in a day

Families never crumble in a day

Oh be careful little eyes what see

Oh be careful little eyes what you see

For the Father up above is looking down in love

Oh be careful little eyes what you see

So true, People never crumble in a day, it is slow, it is accepting changes and slowly desensitizing our minds to accept it as a normal behavior. There has to be a limit on what we accept.

I think of my own, changes in my lifetime, While growing up I never wore shorts, or makeup. Not that I felt it was wrong but I lived under my Moms guidance. I never saw that part of it, God was looking on my inside and I do Love him So.

I was careful of what I saw, I was careful of where my feet took me, I was careful of my friend choices, I was careful of my dress, I was careful to sit like a lady and behave as such. Those things stuck.

Today we accept too many things as acceptable, Where did girls suddenly become people that sat with one let up beside them in a chair? little girls watching Mommies will sit the same way.

Where did daddies decide it was OK to read inappropriate books or watch inappropriate shows on television? Little eyes and ears heard those words and saw the violence so it became acceptable.

It just happened. We let it happen, we are in control of our homes and the little lives God gave us to train up in his word and ways.

Do not fail. Open your own ears and eyes to their needs. They have a lot to tell you. listen to them They have a lot to say.

OK I am through now, so you all my feel you have been at Moms again and she was bossy.

So what else is new?

You must remember when I write it is my heart speaking out and I am looking at myself, I see errors in my life and this gives me strength to overcome.

Postive enforcement for me too, Hopefully for each of you.

Love you all so much.