It Is Sooo Hot!!

It is August in Oklahoma which means it is way too hot! The 7-day forecast has the highs every single day ranging from 99-101, and with our humidity, that means heat index of 105 or so. Did you watch the PGA tournament this weekend that was held in Tulsa? Did you see how hot those golfers were?! And I don’t mean in their physical characteristics or in their playing abilities! They were stinkin’, blazin’ hot! And that is how I feel every time I have to leave my house. I say a daily prayer that the AC doesn’t give out this year! My excuse is I can’t help it, I was born this way - just ask my mom. She will tell you that as a little girl I would have a screaming fit simply because I was hot. If you ask my husband, he will tell you I am still having screaming fits every August!

And then, on Sunday, I got a Holy-Spirit-elbow-in-the-ribs.

My husband and I headed up kids church this weekend (which in our 6-month-old church, is usually attended by our 2 boys, the 2 girls of our pastor and his wife, and maybe 1 0r 2 others). We have a fun curriculum that is about the Israelites exodus from Egypt. This week the lesson focused on how the Israelites whined and complained over and over again, even though God always met their needs. One of our activities was to have the kids cut pictures out of magazines of things for which they are thankful and glue them onto construction paper that said “I am thankful for…” The beautiful, almost-5-year-old daughter of our pastor asked for a yellow piece of paper which she used to cut out a circle and little, skinny strips of paper. She glued these together to make a sun, and then asked me “Would you write I am thankful for the sun on here? Cuz even though the sun makes me hot sometimes, I am still thankful for it.”

Out of the mouths of babes…..

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2 Responses to “It Is Sooo Hot!!”

  • Heidi Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    That is so cute!! Although, I’m in San Diego and we are not in triple digits, but the humidity has sucked the life out of me. We don’t all have A/C here in San Diego, because we don’t generally need it. This August I run down to 7 11 for a Mountain Dew Slurpee. Brain Freeze!!
    or go to Albertson’s and go to the freezer section and stand there. I know I look dumb, but it beats the heat.

  • Ben Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Jenn.

    Hey - first of all thanks for loving my girls so much, all three of them.

    And your post on heat caused me to think about something I regretfully saw yesterday. On my way to my parents’ house I passed by a building that holds services for people on Sunday mornings (traditionally it would be called a church but we’re all learning it’s not) that contained one of those stupid marquees (only stupid because churches manage to consistently express their own stupidity publicly) which read, “You think it’s hot here”.

    What do you do when the instititional church is known for things you don’t want to be known for?

    I say, BE the church!

    Much Love.
    Ben.

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