Saturday, November 22, 2008

Thank you please

It's been awhile. Life has been happening! Update on the dentist thing....It was hilarious. I wish I had a video camera to capture Jacob in his nitrous induced state. He took one big sniff of that stuff and he got a huge smile on his face. I guess it smelled like vanilla cake. He said, "whoa I feel like I'm laying on pillows and clouds!" He was also overly polite which made all the dental assistants crack up. He kept saying thank you to everything they said to him. It went like this...Jacob are feeling okay? Thank you. Jacob do you feel any pain? Thank you. Jacob if you feel any pain raise your hand ok. Please thank you. He was cracking me up. It all went much smoother than I was anticipating.
I've also been realizing more and more how much control I don't have over situations in my life. It's the whole question why do bad things happen to good people thought. If your reading this and you don't believe in God and don't have a relationship with Him I would think this question is very tough for you to figure out. The way I look at it is everything that I have and has happened in my life is given to me or allowed to have happened by God. I know I am a sinner. Every aspect of my life is tainted by sin. My motivations, my thoughts, my deeds, everything. So the whole I'm a good person theory doesn't quite sit well with me. So when I hear people say I should go to heaven because I'm a good person, well your right you haven't killed anybody or no you don't steal from old ladies but you are a sinner. It's all about the relationship you have with God. It's all about understanding who you are and who God is. It's realizing that He sent His son to die on the cross for you so that you can be with Him for eternity in heaven and you did not deserve it. Amazing Grace! We don't know the whole picture. God does. If you believe that and trust that nothing in your life is happening that God doesn't know about or care about it's such a comfort.