Real Life Interruptions

"I think I find most help in trying to look on all interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work. Then one can feel that perhaps one’s true work—one’s work for God—consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one’s day. It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day—the part one can best offer to God. After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it."

Annie Keary (as quoted in Keeping a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot)


"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it’s hard to remember it all the time."

C.S. Lewis, The Quotable Lewis


Risa

Happy Birthday, SquiRe!

SquiRe had his birthday recently. He is such a big boy!

The shirt he is wearing was a gift for his birthday. You can also see his Winnie the Pooh pinata in the background.

They all loved the candy!

SquiRe also got to play with his friend, K, at the water park!

Goldilocks liked playing in the water.

There is Mr. Birthday boy!

K and SquiRe had matching swim trunks! They liked to play right next to each other the whole time!

SquiRe is becoming such a big boy. He is a wonderful blessing!


Momo