Ladies, Ladies…All the Ladies!!

Well, I really have nothing much to write about today… but I had some time so I wanted to give a shout out to my peeps… :)  jk!  We had a pretty good week… really uneventful… the boys just finished their last week of swimming lessons… Josh was devastated…Will, on the other hand…who always HATED the idea of getting ready and going but LOVED it while he was there said this after I told him on Thursday that today was the last swimming lesson…..

“Oh mommy, Thank you, I’ve ALWAYS wanted to take no swimming lessons.”

All month I’ve been telling him that this is an opportunity to take swimming lessons and a gift.  Can he not remember crying like a baby on the edge of the pool last year at a birthday party when all the other kids were swimming and he had to have his “floaties”….I suppose he didn’t.  Anyway… so I had “opportunity” on the brain today… and it reminds me of my very first song I ever wrote…it’s called “Opportunity”….you know… some of the things that we hate… some of the things that we see as trials…as tribulations… later we realize..they were all opportunities for Christ to grow us.

                opportunity–jenny pruitt 

I will delight in the opportunity

for you to mold me, to shape and sculpt me

increase my faith in times I fear you’ve left this place

no I will not frown in discouragement

thy will be done, oh Lord

I trust your plans for me

for I know your love will hold me should this hurt prolong

for when I am weak… then I’m strong

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength

so I will not worry about what tomorrow brings

I’ll set my heart and mind on the more important things

on your love and what that means to me

remind me, Lord, that you are here through it all

and when I am weak, then I’m strong

but if this mountain is too high to climb…I’ll just climb into your arms

’cause I know your love will hold me should this hurt prolong

for when I am weak,

yes, even though I’m weak

I am strong

…………so I will delight in the opportunity……..

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  Therfore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.  That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, indifficulties.  For when I am weak, then I am strong. “  2 Corinthians 12:9-10