26 Things You Might Not Know About Me

April 5, 2006 at 8:06 pm (Writing)

Originally written 2 years ago.

1. I have my nose pierced . . . .left nostril.

2. My favorite cereal is Lucky Charms though I only eat it about once a year. I eat it dry and drink Pepsi with it.

3. Way, way, way back in my past, I delivered singing telegrams

4. The first car I ever bought was a green Duster

5. I love to go to movies alone

6. I have a pseudonym that I use when I think about myself as a writer

7. My favorite color used to be green but now is purple

8. My eyes were blue until I was about ten years old and then they turned green

9. My favorite ice cream cone is one scoop of pistachio and one scoop of chocolate. It is not easy to find pistachio ice cream.

10. I love margaritas . . . especially with chips and salsa

11. One thing that can take me back to my childhood . . . bologna on white bread with Duke’s mayonnaise and Lay’s potato chips crunched under the top layer of bread.

12. I can eat a whole bag of Lay’s Bar-b-cue Potato chips at one sitting . . . have to have Pepsi with that too.

13. I used to have a Chihuahua named Pee Wee

14. I would love to have an inside dog now

15. I gave my daughter permission to have a pet rat

16. I love to color in coloring books

17. No one will play Scrabble with me . . . I don’t know why. I am not that good

18. My favorite cartoon is Pink Panther or that should be was as it is not shown any more.

19. My favorite candy bar is Snickers

20. Before I had children, I only weighed 85 pounds

21. I carry a tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce in my purse

22. I had a yellow Parakeet named Petey that would dance to “Help Me Rhonda” by the Beach Boys

23. My husband tells me stories to help me get to sleep

24. I love the newest John Mayer cd.

25. My favorite tv show is Monk

26. I used to work at a shoe store.

Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia

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Grace-filled Living Resources

April 4, 2006 at 4:56 pm (Living)

Life in General:

The book that added bones to my vague understanding of Grace. Essential Reading!

Marriage:

Redefines the purpose for marriage . . . what if it’s not about making us happy but about making us holy.

This is the first book I have ever read that so clearly communicated my husband’s mind and heart in a way I could understand it. It was my AHA! book of 2005. She has now written For Men Only

Parenting:

This is the book I would have written if I hadn’t been so busy raising my nine children. Clearly gets to the heart of parenting. Not as practical as I would like but I believe the heart change is needed in order to implement anything practical. Highly recommend ANYTHING by the Clay and Sally Clarkson

Now this one is practical. Very clear examples on communicating with our children.

Don’t actually own this one yet but have skimmed it in the bookstore. My basic impression is that it encompasses both the heart change that grace brings to the parent as well as practical positive application.

This book taught many of the tools that I use in my home on a daily basis. Five steps, comfort corner, conflict resolution Good study of the Rod verses included also.

Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia

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Like Dew Your Youth

April 3, 2006 at 8:09 pm (parenting)

“The task of the parent, in other words, is not to confront directly the problems of the young and find the best solutions to them; it is to confront life, and Christ in life, and deal with that. A parent’s main job is not to be a parent, but to be a person. There are no techniques to master that will make a good parent. There is no book to read that will give the right answers. The parents’ main task is to be vulnerable in a living demonstration that adulthood is full, alive, and Christian. The adolescent meanwhile presents a daily agenda for what it means to become an adult and demonstrates the dynamics and difficulties inherent in the process. The agenda provides parents with exposes of their own infantilism, their reluctances to be responsible, their arbitrary preferences for childhood over adulthood, their selective demands for the prerogatives of adulthood without the prerequisites. The agenda becomes a map: before them, daily, parents have biological and emotional patterns lived out that show the way into the faith-growth to which Paul urges us after tha pattern that Christ lives for and in in us.”


I have just rediscovered Like Dew Your Youth by Eugene Peterson. I would love to discuss this book! Anyone want to join me?

Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia

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Parent Training

April 3, 2006 at 7:37 pm (parenting)

Just a general parenting rant, of sorts. Actually, rant is too strong of a word. Maybe it is just an observation, about myself probably. Generally, that what is comes down to . . . I recognize something in someone else and really God is using the situation to speak to me, to reveal a heart issue in me.

Yesterday someone came and asked for me to pray that her four year old son would start going to his class. This wasn’t a random request. Though I don’t know her very well, I am growing in my love of her and we are on the prayer team together.

To be honest, she caught me off guard as I was trying to process some other information and I am afraid that my response to her was a little short. I tried to explain myself but am not sure that I did explain very well. I asked her if she were willing to accept the Lord’s answer may be no, he isn’t ready to be attending class yet. I tried to explain to her that he may just need a bit more time to mature, there may be some fear issues to pray through, that all of my children were not comfortable going into class at that age. She walked away and wondered if I had offended her.

I don’t think she took offense, she seems to be the sweetest woman. However, I walked away feeling aggravated. Frustrated with the attitude that we want to get rid of our children so we can do other thing, spiritual things. When will we learn that the children are the spiritual thing that we need to be doing! The children are God’s method of exacting change in US!

Pause.

Do I hear myself? Do I hear the words I am speaking? Am I looking at myself? Oh God! Forgive me. Forgive me for feeling frustrated throughout the stages of childhood, wishing that they would just grow up, become mature, looking forward to the day that I don’t have to deal with child training issues anymore. It isn’t about child training issues, is it God? It’s about parent training issues, at least the training of this parent.

Father, do you wish that I would grow up, that I would mature . . . I believe you do because You have my best interest at heart, you know the benefits of maturity. But you are ever patient throughout this process and you gently lead me through. God, help me to have that heart toward my children, especially the teenagers. Gently lead all of us through together Lord.

Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia

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