June 2007

“When there is lit­tle aware­ness of real need there is lit­tle real prayer.“
~ Don­ald S. Whit­ney ~
Spir­i­tual Dis­ci­plines For the Chris­t­ian Life

The above quote speaks to me of my basic humanity.

Do your kids give you the stan­dard “Mom, I told you about it” response when they sud­denly announce that they have to go some­where, do some­thing or need money just when you have no cash in your pos­ses­sion and no time to visit the ATM on the way to wher­ever you are headed? Do you swear that you knew noth­ing about it, while they insist that they told you yes­ter­day, last week, last month or whenever?

Our mother used to tell us, “I do not want to hear that you are bored. There are plenty of things to do. Find some­thing.” And then she would walk away, going about her own busi­ness, leav­ing us to fig­ure out some­thing to occupy our own time.She used to call her­self a “domes­tic engi­neer” which would trans­late today to how many blog­gers describe them­selves: SAHM. It took me a few blog vis­its to fig­ure out that meant “stay at home mom.“She was always at home. Every sin­gle day when we got home from school, she was there. Rain or shine. Notice I did not say that she picked us up from school. No, we rode our bikes or walked to school and we only got a ride one way or the other if it was really rain­ing. A few sprin­kles? “You won’t melt.”