Monday, July 18, 2005

My Baby is Growing Up - the other morning, Xavier (who is nine) crawled into bed with me after Eddie had left for work. I got to thinking about how my snuggling with kids days are swiftly coming to an end - as Cedric certainly doesn't do it anymore. Those minutes before getting up with a sweet smelling head under my nose, and a warm body attached to mine (ever notice when you roll they roll with you?) - I think is one of those flashes of heaven on earth.

While I was thinking about him, I was remembering a few days ago when Father Daniel's sermon was about worry and the Christian life. The Gospel reading had been

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]? Matthew 25-27

Xavier turned to me and said "I don't worry about anything. Except those people we see on the side of the road who don't have anything to eat".

What a sweetie. It made me remember to resolve to carry lunches around more with us to give to those people. And, it also reminded me of how sweet Xavier can be, which is a nice thing to remember when he's whining!

Both of those moments were fleeting, and both of them I needed to make a mental memory of. May your day have a mental memory in the making as well.

2 Comments:

At 7:34 AM , Blogger existentialist said...

Sweet post. You know what? My kid bugs me when she gets in bed with me. She clings, she whines, she shucks and jives as I call it, she fusses and fights as Bob Marley calls it. Oh I know we are going through separation and divorce. Does that make it any easier? No! Last night I had to lie on the living room floor with her and listen to The Innocence Mission so she would go to sleep. Then I went in my bed. And who came in my bed? Lord have mercy! Poor kid!

 
At 5:53 PM , Blogger Janelle said...

Loved the Scripture, loved the reminder about worrying--LOVED Xavier's comment. He sounds like a total sweetheart!

 

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