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Did you wear a jacket today?

visioncgbc | October 30, 2007 05:53

Well, the arguments have started.  Every year at this time my young daughter tells me that coats and jackets are not necessary for people unless they are going to be outside for extended periods of time.  I'm not sure if I totally disagree, or if I just care that people think "What kind of momma are you, not making your daughter (who is sick) wear a coat?"  But it gets so old, sometimes I just give up.  We compromised on a hoodie, which I don't even think is a compromise, that's me giving in, because a hoodie isn't a jacket.  I'll admit though I don't have true temperature gauging.  I'd say that my body temp is 10 degree less than normal.  She wanted to wear her East Elementary hoodie over her NC State jersey.  Well, we couldn't find it.  So, I started going through her closet and said "Why don't you wear you Duke hoodi?  It's pink, it matches.  She says "That makes no sense. I have on a Chapel Hill shirt."  But, she decides that sense Mark has a house divided tag on his truck, that she'll just have a house divided outfit on.  She's so smart and quick-witted.  Reverse psychology doesn't work on Chloe.  It never has. 

Last night Meagan attempts to apply to UNCG.  Well, she and I trying to do this-not a good idea.  She's to busy crying to do it, and I'm not smart enough to do it.  We click "send" and really shouldn't have.  I give it to Mark to add another what seems like billion dollar's worth of bills needing to be sent.  He's looking over it and informs me that we have applied for her to attend UNCG in Spring 2008.  Well great!  Now what do we do?!  Mark says he'll handle that part, and I've got to call the school and get her GPA.  She really needs to take the SAT again in Dec. , but the registration in by (I think) tomorrow.  Cap and Gown and announcements, and senior portraits, and college apps is alot.  I guess we forgot even though it's only been 1 year since we did all this. 

But I know that God has a plan for all of this.  Coats and college and careers and everything else.  I sometimes read Purpose Driven Life as a devotion.  So today I read day 30, which talks about our SHAPE for servanthood.  It was something I needed to re-read.  We were all created differently with intension and purpose in mind.  I mean academically-forget it!  Cooking-yes, songwriting-yes, teaching-yes.  There are other things I'm shaped for.  But the point I'm trying to make is that I'm not you, and God doesn't want me to be you.  You aren't me, and God doesn't want you to be me.  I'm trying to thank God that he created the both of us to be exactly who he wanted us to be.  Don't you find comfort in that?!  Boy I do.  Because this whole trying to become an entirely different person is not only tiring, it's useless and impossible. 

So my goal is to be the best me I can be-jacket and all!

Your hands shaped me and made me

Job 10:8

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