Last night Zeke went to a local church with the youth group and then was going on to one of the youth leader's homes for snack afterward. He was traveling on all familiar territory, so I wasn't too worried. Ben was off in the opposite direction for a meeting.
Around 10:00 I heard someone come home, I had fallen asleep on the girls' floor so I got myself into bed. It crossed my mind that someone came home a little early (In our area 11 PM is curfew for the under 18's) I usually can tell who came home when they crawl into bed, one of the bed creaks more than the other....hmm I believe it was Ben. Meeting must have been over a bit early.
I dozed off, at 11:20 PM Ben came into our room, "mom where is Zeke? His car isn't here and his phone is on the desk."
Groan--he must have forgotten his phone...did he get lost? Did he get confused on those crazy back roads? Did he even have the GPS with him?
Ben: "I'll text the youth leader's son and ask if Zeke forgot the time."
Dad came up, " Andrew says Zeke's brakes gave out on his car, Tim took him home a while ago."
A few moments later "umm Zeke is sleeping in his bed."
In the morning...."yeah I sent you a text, wasn't sure if I should call at that time of the night, nothing you could do anyway." Dad had heard the text notification, but "couldn't figure out your phone."(it is a strange phone)
Thankfully the brakes gave out just as he parked at the church and the afterward was close by so he decided to take it easy and go there. After church today dad and Zeke went to check it out...looks like the squirrels struck again, the brake line had a hole in it.
Squirrels= fuel pump twice and brake line once
We relocated about five of them, but there must have been one still waiting out there.
I also wanted to post something Zeke read at our Thanksgiving themed mid-week church:
Around 10:00 I heard someone come home, I had fallen asleep on the girls' floor so I got myself into bed. It crossed my mind that someone came home a little early (In our area 11 PM is curfew for the under 18's) I usually can tell who came home when they crawl into bed, one of the bed creaks more than the other....hmm I believe it was Ben. Meeting must have been over a bit early.
I dozed off, at 11:20 PM Ben came into our room, "mom where is Zeke? His car isn't here and his phone is on the desk."
Groan--he must have forgotten his phone...did he get lost? Did he get confused on those crazy back roads? Did he even have the GPS with him?
Ben: "I'll text the youth leader's son and ask if Zeke forgot the time."
Dad came up, " Andrew says Zeke's brakes gave out on his car, Tim took him home a while ago."
A few moments later "umm Zeke is sleeping in his bed."
In the morning...."yeah I sent you a text, wasn't sure if I should call at that time of the night, nothing you could do anyway." Dad had heard the text notification, but "couldn't figure out your phone."(it is a strange phone)
Thankfully the brakes gave out just as he parked at the church and the afterward was close by so he decided to take it easy and go there. After church today dad and Zeke went to check it out...looks like the squirrels struck again, the brake line had a hole in it.
Squirrels= fuel pump twice and brake line once
We relocated about five of them, but there must have been one still waiting out there.
I also wanted to post something Zeke read at our Thanksgiving themed mid-week church:
Today in America we
have so many things to be thankful for, but because we have so much,
we take a lot of those things for granted.
We just start thinking of
them as things that we deserve, and lose the thankfulness that we
should have for them.
We are extremely blessed to live in a country
that allows Christians to worship freely, but we get used to it and
take it for granted. We forget that this freedom of religion is not
allowed in many other countries, and Christians in other countries
are risking their lives to serve God.
We must not forget what a
blessing that this is.
We have no fear of being sent to jail for what
we believe. But instead of being thankful for the persecution that we
have been spared, we end up complaining about how bad the government
is. The government is changing and becoming more secular, but we
still have much more freedom than many other countries around us.
Another thing that I am thankful for is the Christian heritage we
have. Our traditions and our Mennonite culture are not things to
forget about and I am thankful for them because many other people
just don't have that type of positive culture around them. I am
thankful for my parents who brought me up to love and serve God and
taught me to know what I believe.
I'm thankful for my siblings who
make life interesting. I don't know if I would be able to concentrate
on anything without noise in the background.
God has also blessed us
all with so many possessions. None of us are at risk of going hungry
or without a house to live in. In America, we have some of the best
living conditions in the world and other resources that many other
people just don't have.
I am thankful for the time that we live in
where we can travel almost anywhere in the world within 24 hours, and
we can communicate with other people who are thousands of miles away.
God has blessed us so much with our possessions and our resources but
we forget about them and start complaining that we don't have a new
phone or a nicer car or a bigger house or whatever. Lets remember
what we have and stop worrying about we don't have.
We have a day for
thanksgiving, and then the day after, we have black Friday, a day not
of being content with what we have but a day to go out and buy things
that we do not need.
Thanksgiving is a good time for us to remember
all of the things we have, but we should not limit it to one day; we
need to remember to be thankful during the whole year.
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