cades cove

We took a trip up to cades cove over the weekend and had a great time.
thanks to Andy and Olivia Ogle for letting us use their backpacks.
Enjoy

Fear

This is something new...fear.
Davis has never really been a fearful kid. He likes most people he meets, he hasn't been afraid of much and all of the sudden, fear.
Halloween is a crazy time for an almost 3 year old.
Lowe's has a huge witch that moves.
Party City has a Jason figure that swings a knife over his head.
One of our neighbor's goes all out and deocorates with witches, spiders, pumpkins, etc... (they have an autistic son who really likes the lights)
But for Davis it's new, and often with new comes fear.

This is not unique to Davis, it's humanity. When a new opportunity presents itself to me I can choose how I respond, fear or faith.
Far too often i choose fear.
Fearful of failure, fearful of the unknown, fearful of what might be, fearful that I'm not enough, fearful that they might find out, fearful that it won't matter in the end... fearful.
It's interesting what scripture has to say about fear. Fear is NOT wrong in scripture. Actually the bible says that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Huh? Fear the Lord? But it makes perfect sense, if I fear the Lord, whom else do I have to fear? Fear of the Lord is the only appropriate fear.
So the other night Davis said, Daddy will you pray for me? Sure bud, what do you want me to pray? Pray that God will keep me safe...

Amazing.
Faith like a child.
Davis really does have fear, but his fears aren't real.
The same with with me.
"He has not given us over to a spirit of fear, but rather a spirit of sonship." (Romans 8:15)

Back

I have thought a lot about the validity of this blog. Do i keep putting random thoughts and pics on the WWW for the world to see? Is this more for me than it is for anyone else?
But I have decided to jump back in.
I promise to blog at least once a week (at least) and go from there. It may become a more rounded blog, not simply pics of the kids and an update on the current parenting joys and struggles.
What am I thinking about...
What are we doing, both good and bad.
So....
there you go.

We grew up going to the zoo, my mom loves it.
Davis and Annie have already been to the zoo 4 or so times in their short lives.
I've been on a safari in Africa.
Never seen anything like this.
Thank God for glass.
You really only need to watch the first 45 seconds.

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Unfortunate

This is just unfortunate.
I am hoping this person isn't in advertising.
Their kids are scarred for life...
"No honey, you aren't huge, the sale was huge!"
"Not what the sign said mom...not what the sign said."