Scheduled
The boy loves scheduling. He loves to schedule himself. He times his playtime. He plays one period of a hockey game with his men. (puts 20 minutes on the timer) Then plays with his buses during the 'intermission' (another 20 minutes on the timer) Then back for the second period, etc.
And he plans out his games weeks in advance, scheduling for when he will be home. Luckily, he is flexible about switching the games when something comes up. Like he had a game scheduled for this evening, but because he was home during the time he would have been at Rustle, he played the game early so he could go out to church in the evening.
James is also proud to note that he can now snap his fingers!
We went to the little Church where he goes to Pioneers and we stuck out like sore thumbs! (not that that's bad) He marched us up to sit right at the front. The rest of the congregation sat kind of -at the BACK! He was the ONLY child there. And he's not too keen on sitting still. So we were sitting at the FRONT and SQUIRMY. We stuck out. The guy who was speaking was named Peter (an old Salvation Army guy- ya know him Bob?) and he spoke on the story of Joseph and even though Joseph got served a bad plate of life, he made a choice not to be bitter and to just deal. Joseph lost his whole family that one day. Can you imagine going from a family with 11 brothers, to nothing all because of jealousy and not spiraling into darkness?
And he plans out his games weeks in advance, scheduling for when he will be home. Luckily, he is flexible about switching the games when something comes up. Like he had a game scheduled for this evening, but because he was home during the time he would have been at Rustle, he played the game early so he could go out to church in the evening.
James is also proud to note that he can now snap his fingers!
We went to the little Church where he goes to Pioneers and we stuck out like sore thumbs! (not that that's bad) He marched us up to sit right at the front. The rest of the congregation sat kind of -at the BACK! He was the ONLY child there. And he's not too keen on sitting still. So we were sitting at the FRONT and SQUIRMY. We stuck out. The guy who was speaking was named Peter (an old Salvation Army guy- ya know him Bob?) and he spoke on the story of Joseph and even though Joseph got served a bad plate of life, he made a choice not to be bitter and to just deal. Joseph lost his whole family that one day. Can you imagine going from a family with 11 brothers, to nothing all because of jealousy and not spiraling into darkness?
posted by Aphra at 10:33 PM
1 Comments:
Probably Peter Bielby. We've known Peter and his wife Carol from since we were kids, though we don't stay in touch much these days. Peter hasn't been real well lately so I'm interested to hear that he is preaching again. He was helpful to us when we left The Salvation Army. He got us set up with much of our first home's furniture when we couldn't have afforded to do so otherwise. A good guy. I can picture you and James at the front of the church. Agreed, you would have been noticed!
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