Miss my day with Jaden? NO WAY!

Amy called at 6:30 this morning to tell me she was relieving me of having Jaden today since I had had a sick Belle on Monday and then a sick Jaden on Tuesday. I told her that I was definitely expecting and looking forward to having Jaden. She asked Jaden if he wanted to stay with Grandma or go to school, and he chose to stay here. We had such a fun morning together. We watched his RESCUE HEROES videos, played leggos, he played with his little people garage, and we did other stuff. We ate lunch and had bath time. He is down for his nap and I need to be working to make some real good progress on finishing up the lesson I will be teaching at the Retirement Center Bible Study on Friday as the regular teacher won't be with us. I will do that as soon as I finish this post. The video clip is of Jaden with his books before he lays down to go to sleep. We read the same three books each time. I ran to get my camera to make a picture of him at reading-before-naptime, but he always lets me film for a few seconds before he starts saying, "I want to see it" which means he wants to watch a playback of the movie on the camera. I was asking him what he just did in the bathroom (get a bath) so that's what that is about in the movie.

(Note: the video didn't upload and I've got to get back to work on my Bible lesson. I will try again later.)


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WET PANTS ~~ A Story of Compassion

Matthew 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them...

1Peter 3:8 ¶ Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous


WET PANTS

Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.

The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat.'

He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.

As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.

She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!'

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'



May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us have compassion on others and to do good unto them.