This has been a week of accidents for the kids! Hope this streak comes to an end soon! Wednesday, the boys went to a friend's house to play, and Timothy stepped on something and got a small puncture wound in his foot, I had to dig dirt out of it and put a band-aid and neosporin on it, so it wasn't too bad.
Later I was making supper, and had taken the pan off the stove (which is a flat surface electric stove), but it was still hot, and Zachary got up on a stool, and laid his arm right on the still hot burner. He burned about a four inch by 1 1/2 inch oval on the underside of his forearm, to just past his elbow. It blistered up and pulled off some skin immediately. We got it soaking in ice water, then called my mom, who called my Uncle Joe (who's a doctor), who called in some silvadine creme, and we got it all bandaged up. Now I'm changing bandages twice a day... He'd been such a trooper, and not complaining about it too much. It looks like it would hurt really bad!
Then at church that night, Timothy bonked heads with the Pastor's oldest daughter, and Greggory hit the water fountain with his face, and now is sporting a black eye!
Then, to top it all off, Friday, which happened to be our 10th anniversary, I spent about 2 1/2 hours in the ER with Anthony... He was goofing around, throwing his pull-up around in the air, and lost his balance, fell sideways and hit his right ear on the wooden platform under our bed. As soon as I was able to look at it, it was bleeding, and when I got the blood cleaned up with a rag, found that his the edge of his ear had a little split in it. I thought it looked like in needed something to heal back to its original shape, so we went to the ER. Luckily, the doctor was able to repair it with glue - Dermabond - so we didn't have to deal with the trauma of stitching it.
All in all, it has been a pretty accident prone week at our house. Hopefully it will get better!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Music
I have always wanted to write a song, and there have been a few times when I sat down to do it, and the results? Something that rhymed, maybe, but then trying to set it to music??? HA. Anyway, I thought that maybe that was one thing that I was not supposed to do.
Since making the recent transition to Living Water Ministries, our new church, Gabe and I have been doing some singing on the worship team. At first, we were just fill-in, but now we sing every week. I have always loved music, I love the way that music can express the deep emotions that words alone cannot.
A while back, Gabe was at work, and I spent some quality quiet time with Jesus, and poured out my heart and cried, and interceded for several requests that were on my mind, and as I lay in bed that night, one line kept coming to mind, and was interestingly set to music.
So the next day, I sat down at the computer and started typing the line of music that was in my mind. Then within the next couple of hours, the rest of the song spilled out onto the page. As it was coming to me, the music was there too, so next, I sat down at the piano and wrote out the chords that accompanied it. I wrestled with what to do with it then, was it just for me or was it for sharing?? I think a couple of weeks later, we were practicing for worship service, I felt like I was supposed to give it to our Pastor, (who also plays guitar for worship, and very well I might add), and we practiced it a little. Later that week, we practiced it at Gabe's mom's house, who plays the organ, and got it well enough that we played it the next week at church.
They keep calling the song "Brenna's Song", but I call it "I Come Before You." I can't give you the music, but here are the words...
I come before You now,
My heart is crying out,
Your presence in this place,
Seems more than I can take
Fill me with Your Spirit, God
Wash me with the water of Your Word
So that I can worship You in truth,
That's all I want to do
These burdens make me weak,
I lay them at your feet,
Now You can make me strong,
That's why I sing this song.
Fill me with Your Spirit, God
Wash me with the water of Your Word
So that I can worship You in truth,
That's all I want to do
Since making the recent transition to Living Water Ministries, our new church, Gabe and I have been doing some singing on the worship team. At first, we were just fill-in, but now we sing every week. I have always loved music, I love the way that music can express the deep emotions that words alone cannot.
A while back, Gabe was at work, and I spent some quality quiet time with Jesus, and poured out my heart and cried, and interceded for several requests that were on my mind, and as I lay in bed that night, one line kept coming to mind, and was interestingly set to music.
So the next day, I sat down at the computer and started typing the line of music that was in my mind. Then within the next couple of hours, the rest of the song spilled out onto the page. As it was coming to me, the music was there too, so next, I sat down at the piano and wrote out the chords that accompanied it. I wrestled with what to do with it then, was it just for me or was it for sharing?? I think a couple of weeks later, we were practicing for worship service, I felt like I was supposed to give it to our Pastor, (who also plays guitar for worship, and very well I might add), and we practiced it a little. Later that week, we practiced it at Gabe's mom's house, who plays the organ, and got it well enough that we played it the next week at church.
They keep calling the song "Brenna's Song", but I call it "I Come Before You." I can't give you the music, but here are the words...
I come before You now,
My heart is crying out,
Your presence in this place,
Seems more than I can take
Fill me with Your Spirit, God
Wash me with the water of Your Word
So that I can worship You in truth,
That's all I want to do
These burdens make me weak,
I lay them at your feet,
Now You can make me strong,
That's why I sing this song.
Fill me with Your Spirit, God
Wash me with the water of Your Word
So that I can worship You in truth,
That's all I want to do
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