Important things

It is sometimes in the hustle and bustle of life we lose sight of the important things.  Yesterday during communion was on of those moments we might get to busy and ignore.  Something that makes you stop and realize what truly matters in this life.

Not really sure how many of you have tried to take communion with three squirmy kids, where only one is taking communion. Most communion Sundays I sit alone with the three of them because Brian distributes the communion.  The communion usually goes something like this.  Gracie climbs into my lap which makes it so much easier to try to manuever the bread and cup plates around me.  Still not sure how the deacon/elder doesn't really think that just giving us at the end of the pew the plates and taking them back would be easier but most every week I have to somehow get the plates from one end of the pew to the other without spilling any bread or juice. Samuel has tried to do it but I nearly have a heart attack picturing the grape juice all over the front of some ladies beautiful sweater.  So after the bread which usually isn't really terribly tricky except reminding Samuel to choose the first one he touches and then reminding Gracie that she cannot take it yet and then telling Bubs that we only have about ten more minutes...comes the juice.  That is even more fun because since we sit close to the front, Samuel has to hold his cup a ridiculously long time WITHOUT spilling it as Gracie squirms and moves from seat to seat and Bubs continues to ask how much longer.

So how is this a post about important things (besides the fact that communion IS very important).  Well it is about how sometimes important things take you by surprise.

So...yesterday in the chaos of our normal communion experience Bubs points to my cup and tells me it is "blood." Wow...he actually said that.  Then I asked him whose blood it was supposed to be.  He tells me "God's blood."  Then I asked him who he died for and he said "Ben"

Not sure if that really seems like much to some of you.  But really it was the most important conversation with him I have had.  He said all the right things.  Of course we need to add some more details to that conversation but it is a really good start and really reminded me that even in the chaos of our crazy lives God is still at work and working in my kids!