Bill: moving forward! Today I talked with my supervisor and with my human resources coordinator about using the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to use some time for Bill and Mom. I'm not sure whether Jackie (my department head) will be as accepting and supportive as the others were, but I am asking You to soften her heart and make her a bit more flexible than she usually is. I'd like to try the four 10-hour day thing, but I will accept whatever You arrange. There is an attractiveness about the 4-day work week that I should not deny to You :) since You know everything anyway. You're the Boss, Lord. Would you work this out to Your glory and to help Bill and Mom?
My Girls: I put that in capitals :) because it reminds me of the Temptations' song "My Girl."
I guess you'd say/What can make me feel this way/My girls, my girls, my girls...I am so thankful for them! I do not want to make idols of them; I realize that's a risk for some parents, and especially some mothers. I do want to love and encourage and pray for their blessing. Father, may I ask that You build Your life into them. For Amy, I ask that You guide her path to Mexico and beyond to graduate school. Particularly--I am a mother, after all--I plead with you to keep her safe in that violent city of Tijuana. For Julie, I ask with gratitude already for fellowship for her. Thank You for her "job" or perhaps more properly her "ministry" at Lakeside. Please keep her in Your word and in Your Spirit this summer, enough to carry her through in college where fellowship is much harder to find.
It's almost 10 pm. If I am going to get used to a 10-hour day, I need to have discipline about getting to bed early.
Oh, yes...My husband. He's not home yet, and I could hear the exhaustion when he called 45 minutes ago. Please fill him with energy and stamina and alertness to get home safely tonight to me. Amen!
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