Friday, May 10, 2013

Out of the Mouths of Babes

My kids watch a show on Cartoon Network called Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. If you have boys then the odds are that you know about this show and all the Legos that come with it!

The storyline for one of the characters, Lord Garmadon, is that he was bitten by a fierce serpent, The Great Devourer, and that evil now runs through his veins as a result of the snake bite.  Even if the evil Garmadon wanted to be good, he couldn't, because of the Devourer.

 
 
This morning on the way to school a conversation came about where the older boys could not understand why a family member was a certain way.  They couldn't wrap their sweet, innocent little heads around the sad fact that sometimes family treats you worse than others.  The only way I could explain it was just that "he had evil in his heart."
 
Conner is all his five-year-old wisdom said, "Like the Great Devourer bit him." I immediately caught the Ninjago reference and started to say no that it wasn't quite like that, but thought for a minute that it was EXACTLY like that.  A wise & cunning serpent, a devourer, has breathed his evil into him.
 
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8

 
Just an encouragement this morning to stay the course, fight the fight, finish the race, lest you get devoured . . .
 
Children sometimes have the best and simplest ways to explain things!

Friday, May 3, 2013

Embracing the Camera!

 
So every week Emily over @ the anderson crew Embrace's the Camera - meaning she actually gets in pictures with her kids instead of just acting as their photographer and no one ever knowing what she looks like! So dressed up or still in her PJ's she's getting in the photographs! Of course, the week I'm prepared to do so she didn't do a link up but here I am embracing the camera with the bigs anyway!
 
 
springtime fun laying in the grass
 


 
me holding an alligator! Conner was a little scared so I was brave -
 it was surprisingly very cold and somewhat soft

 
 
I don't always love myself in pictures but I'm glad my kids will have memories of all the fun we had TOGETHER!