Break Fast

Daddy spoke this morning, a Dr. Seuss themed message based on "The Lorax," which actually  turned out pretty well.  Madison and the other children were in for a shorter service today, this due to the Miracle Prayer Service that took place upstairs.  Some time ago Daddy was having excruciating kidney troubles for weeks on end, and the x-rays of his kidneys looked like constellations, so many tiny dots in those kidneys that you could play a connect the dots game, and probably spell out the word, PAIN.   This was a while ago, but Daddy went to that Miracle Prayer Service, and was in fact healed.  When prayed for, I felt no surge of anything, no tingle, no nothing - but a few days later, I felt nothing then either:  no pain.  I've never had trouble since.

As for today's service, we were praying for the kids afterwards, every single one as they exited the building.  You can see here Pastor Lance, Craig, Tucker and Josh, and then on the other side, Isaac, myself, and Bailey, each of us praying for hundreds of children as they pour out the door.

It was a good, solid morning, and a long one for the folks upstairs.  We hung around a good bit, and of course there were Dr. Seuss characters as well out there greeting.  The message went well, and Daddy is getting a bit more confident in his public speaking than in previous efforts - things seem to be more fluid than before, which is to say things go off script a little more often, and that's okay.

We got home today, a little later, but also because we're breaking our fast, Mommy had this tremendous fish dinner for us.  Madison was okay with pizza, and all of us were okay with all kinds of Christmas chocolate that we'd been eyeing for the past three weeks.  There was some of the chocolate from the "Taste of Britain" store, Crunchie bars and chocolate orange slices.  We probably overdid it a bit!

Madison was studying a bit for her science test upcoming, but soon after we were playing this game we just got called "Stacking," which features these nesting dolls set around the turn of the century.  It's a puzzle game, and Madison was enjoying the puzzles and the little bits of humor all throughout.

We watched "Incredibles 2" again tonight, and it was better the second time, visually a pretty amazing movie actually.  The architecture and clothing alone bring a lot of smiles, and those cups of water at the restaurant bring back memories of the old restaurants we visited growing up.  Anyway, we loved watching the movie, and then afterwards of course there was the bedtime ritual.  Mommy and Madison are so very much into this next "Peter and the Starcatchers" book, with Madison always asking "One more chapter, please!"

We read the devotional, and we read from the book of Acts again tonight, about Peter and Cornelius, a great passage about all of us being the same, gentile and Jew.  It's common sense, although to see events in the news these days, you wouldn't know it.

After prayers and zerberts, it was time for bed... and maybe another piece of chocolate!