A Good Day

Time for a personal post.  Today was a really good day.  And what was really good about it was how simple it was.  It was a family day. Stick with me, I'll have a point to make through all this.  ;)

Started last night when I stayed up late (after watching a movie with some guy friends) cleaning the kitchen really well so that my wife would get up to a clean kitchen.  This is one of the greater acts of love I can show my wife.  Always feel good when I can do that.  She reciprocated this morning by shutting off my alarm and letting me catch up on sleep this morning (she worries about me.  :)  )

Today she went to work and I had the kids.  While the oldest finished her school work, I had a good long visit with my mom and the phone.   Good time.  Then I sent all the kids outside while I made lunch.  While they ate lunch I sang to them and talked with them.  We had a good time.  Then sent them back out.  Joined them later this afternoon while I worked in the yard getting ready for winter and having fun with them.  Supper together as a family.  Cleaned the kitchen again while Sarah got some time with the kids reading the book she is doing with them (Laura Ingalls Wilder).  Then we tucked them in and prayed with them.  Then it was sit on the couch together to watch NCIS: LA, and Jeopardy.

Sound boring?  It was glorious.  This is what homelife can be.  We focus on one another, build calm and close loving relationships.  It was a peaceful day.  Peace.  We all need that and the kids especially need that peace and stability that comes from Dad & Mom spending time together and with them.  So often these days homes are chaotic, frantic, busy.  I am most definitely a busy man, but I cannot allow us to become so busy that we lose the peace of our home.  That is more important than a busy social calendar, challenging activity schedule, or ministry.  This will be a busy week with Deaconess meeting for Sarah, IV speaking for me, and our normal stuff.  But we will stay at peace and make sure that our home is one that the kids feel is quiet and secure, no matter what the waves of our life are.

It was a good day.