Mr Leo

So My nephew turned one last week and my brother and sister in law had his HUGE birthday party this weekend. The little guy just amazes me, he came to us last year about 8 weeks early and wasn't quite ready to come out. He was in the hospital until almost his original due date. So to see him now running around and getting into things is just great!
I call him a little guy, but he is quite a chunk (which will probably go away now that he can walk) but he is all the cuter for it! Gotta love a little baby fat when they are that young :-)
My older brother does these amazing videos for him, which are on various website and he tracks Leo's first year. My sister in law needs props for the scrapbooks she put together because those too are great! (It must be a family thing, the scrapbooks because my sister and myself also spend a lot of time making excellent scrapbooks, when there is time).
But I look at my nephews and my niece and I think how great it will be when they are older and can look back and see how much love they have in their family. All of us want to do so much for them and everyone knows they love looking back and seeing how things were when they were little.
So anyways just wanted to give a birthday shoutout to Leo and give some props for the birthday party.
I have to admit my siblings do know how to throw parties for their little ones. They both have had partys with like 70+ people and their kids are all under 3 LOL. I don't even know enough people to have parties like that and I'm 25... hmmm maybe that's a sad reality haha.

Caleb The Faithful

So I am currently getting better about going to church, I have been randomly going with my sister and brother in law for the past few months and I have made it the last two Sundays, my problem is getting up early and making it there, but when I go I always get so much out of it.

It's sort of refreshing to go to church and really feel the message hit home and see how it relates to every day life and people. I grew up in a church that was a little more traditional and that's great for some people but for me I can't focus. So since I started going to christ church at mason I just really can take something out of it.

Yesterdays service was speaking about doing things wholeheartedly and having/being faitful. We tend to do things when we want too and when they are convienent for us. That's how society is and we are all a product of that. Not to say it makes anyone a bad person, but I don't think it's how God really intended for it to be.

The service was about Caleb, who had been made a promise by God to recieve land, Caleb waited for 45 years to recieve it and he was never impatient or angry that he hadn't received it earlier, he was just gratedul that he got it at all. He was completely 100% devoted to God and he knew if God promised it to him he would receive it. He had all his faith in God and that never changed. How many people can truely say that. How many of us are willing to wait 45 years to get something. In todays society I don't think many of us are willing to do that. We want everything yesterday, I know I am like that more often then not. The other amazing thing about Caleb is that after waiting all this time for this land and gifts from God he gave the best part of it to his daughter, just because she asked for it. He was a person that lived for everyone else, at least thats how it appears to me, from the bits of scripture I heard. But could you imagine how self fulfilling that could be, to do so much for God and the people you love. To wait your whole life for something just to give it away. To be so full of faith that the wait doesn't matter.
I do try to put all my faith into God and to wait and see what my life will bring and it's hard. I am like everyone else, I want to know what's going to happen now, I want things now. But the wait can make things more gratifying. The good things in life are worth waiting for and if you truely do put your faith in God you will be rewarded for it (even if you have to wait).

I take these sermons and talk about what I think, everyone probably gets a different message (along the same lines) but they always make me want to be a better person and that's easier said then done, but who said things we're supposed to be easy. It takes work and in the end it will be worth it.