Sweet Revenge

Revenge: (ri-venj) Verb.  1. ) to take vengeance for; inflict punishment for; avenge.

Usually not associated with a 2 year old. Let alone my sweet little innocent Emma.

But the other day, sweet little Em, got me. We were at the store buying pillows for our bed and because I am an awesome dad, I did what awesome dads do. As we were walking down a main aisle, I hit her with the pillow. She said, “stop it dad dad!”  So of course, I hit her again. Then it happened. That sweet sweet little girl took her revenge. She spun around and exclaimed very loudly, “DADDY YOU NAKED! YOU NAKED!” Yeah not something you want your child or anyone for that matter to be yelling in a department store. She thought it was hilarious. Needless to say I stopped hitting her with the pillow (for a few minutes anyways). So that my friends is a great example of what you would call “sweet” revenge.

Yep, It happened.

I have always been told that “one day you’ll be old too”. I always just laughed and said “yep, one day!” Well, it happened. I was speaking with Alana on Saturday and she asked me what year I graduated from High School. I told her 2000. She laughed and said, “I was in Kindergarten.” I didn’t believe her at first then she told me that she was born in 1994. It took me a minute to do the math, (okay a couple of minutes) I was born in 1982 so that made me…12!!! 12 years old when she was born. BAM. It happened. I was old. I should’ve taken the hints a couple of weeks earlier when they started making fun of my (very, very small, and hard to see, might I add) growing bald spot. But I didn’t really think about it until now.
I know some of you reading this are thinking, “Yeah right. If you’re old then I’m, uhh, uhh, wait what were we talking about?” And if you are, don’t worry; I am only old to some people, like Alana. It makes me think about when people tell you, “It’s going to happen to you someday,” and we don’t believe them. Listen to the wise. Proverbs 13:14 says, “The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.” Don’t just listen to advice from the wise, apply it.
Here is some of that advice: Alana, one day it will happen to you too; Alyssa, no, I don’t need any spray on hair or take any pills to make my hair grow. I am fine with going bald; maybe it’ll take the focus off of my one big ear.

-J

Make everyday Count

Wow, another year has gone and another one has begun. It amazes me how fast a whole year can go by. That makes me realize how important some things are and how unimportant others things can be. On a Sunday back in December my grandmother was at Wal-Mart picking up some prescriptions. She got in her car to go back home but stopped at the light to turn right onto Hwy 278.  At that moment, she went into cardiac arrest, her heart stopped. Here is the amazing part.
My aunt and cousin, her daughter and granddaughter “just happened” to pull up behind her and saw her “slump over” in the car. When they jumped out and ran up to the car my grandmother’s foot hit the gas pedal making the car lunge forward. They were able to put the car in park before she went out into traffic which obviously would’ve made the situation a whole lot worse. When the paramedics got there, she was not breathing and had no pulse. After doing CPR they got a faint pulse and then took her to Cobb hospital. By Tuesday, other than being sore from the CPR, she was feeling fine.
This in my world is called a miracle. Had it not been for my Aunt and cousin being right behind her when her heart stopped, she probably would not have made it. God places us in the positions and places that we need to be even if we do not realize it at the time. We were once in the same situation. We too once were dead in sin and if it wasn’t for the person that God had placed in our lives to show us the way to Christ we would not have made it. Have you ever been that person that God had placed in someone’s life specifically to lead them to Christ? You may have been more times than you know, but did not realize it. Time flies by so fast, so make every moment, every encounter, and every day count.

-J