Mother’s Day
My kids are destroying the kitchen. Maybe its not that bad. I’m available for thier consultation, but I am staying out of there. I get worked up to easy. They’ll enjoy it more if I stay out of there way. So will I.
My son has boiled eggs and hes dying them just like Easter. Kids. My daughter is scaring me as she is making muffins. Why do you need a food processor for that? Oh well. I’m staying out of the way. As far as possible. That’s why I am upstairs working on the blog. I estimate breakfast will be served an hour after lunch.
I had thought about taking us out for lunch. We’d go eat Chinese Dim Sum at Viet Namese restaurant. Go figure. This is one of her favorite things to do (and mine). Wheeled tables ar epushed around the restaurant and you just point at the delicacies you want to eat. Yummy! Don’t think its gonna happen today. No way we can beat the church crowd. Once they show up on a day like today it will be crowded. Probably have 30 minute wait.
When I finish this post I need to write a letter to my daughter. They want folks to write letters (She just asked me for Vanilla Extract, it’s getting serious) to thier kids that are graduating. I don’t like being forced to write as this being used for a religious purpose. They have a retreat next Friday and they will be given letters then. I think I should write a letter because I am motivated to write, not because some pompous religious tradition for Church I do not attend tells me I need to write a letter. I’ll write just the same. She’s still young and her friends might hurt her if she did not get a letter from me. Kids are cruel on this kind of thing.
I guess I have cracked open the religious door a little bit. Religion is not my favorite thing. I’m a Christian, God set up Christianity. Then man thought he could do better and made religion. Religion makes you do things (the container got stuck on the food processor, Dad to the rescue. My son is looking for classical music for breakfast) like write letters. All this can do is provide a temporary emotional surge. How does it improve my spiritual life?
I’m going to stop. This will only get my blood boiling. It’s Mother’s Day and I have a letter to write.
Simple American
God’s country, Texas, USA
May 8th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
I can’t recommend C.S. Lewis highly enough. For fun sometime, pick up THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS. They are written from the point of view of an elder demon to his nephew on how to corrupt a human. Lewis is THE author to read when you feel jaded with Christianity. He sees the all complexities of religion, yet cuts to the core of what’s truly important.
May 9th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
I’ll have to run that book down.
Though I don’t feel jaded with Christianity. Inadequate perhaps, but not jaded.