Obedience

Amazing...hiliarious...but powerful story for me this morning. Just a few minutes ago I was trying to talk to my wife to give her an update on my brother-in-law who is at the hospital right now. While I was trying to talk my son, Cooper, kept interrupting me to tell me something about his train, Percy. I finally paused from talking to Suzii in order to tell Cooper that he needed to be quiet and wait a minute. He looked at me and said, "But daddy, Percy's brakes aren't working!". I looked at him and said, "Well, I need you to put the brakes on your mouth for a minute while I talk to mommy. Do you understand?". He looked at me and very obediently said, "I'm understand". 5 seconds go by and I hear him say, "Ow!". I look up at him and he has Percy's wheels on his mouth. He literally, obediently, put Percy's brakes on his mouth. LOLOLOLOL.

Of course, Suzii and I busted out laughing. Then, I explained to him that I simply needed him to be quiet for a moment, which he did.

Then it hit me how blessed God is when we are obedient to what we believe He is telling us to do. I honestly think that even if we misunderstand what He's telling us, He's still blessed as a Father to see us attempt to follow through with what He instructs us to do. Sometimes it may seem silly what God is telling you to do. A tender heart towards Him should lead us to attempt it anyways. What's God telling you to do today? Give somebody something? Call someone and tell them you love them? Go to the mall and dance around like an idiot? Put Percy's brakes on your mouth?

Love y'all
Johnny

Mario Kart

You know you've been playing too much MarioKart on the Wii when you start doing the following in your REAL car in REAL traffic:

1. You start revving your engine at the last second before a light turns green in hopes of getting a power boost.

2. You start looking for Floating Question Mark boxes at intersections so you can blast the person in front of you out of the way.

3. You wish you had a banana peel to drop behind your car to make that person who's following right on your bumper spin out.

4. When you go over hills you flick your wrists out of habit thinking that you'll get a super jump and boost when you come down the other side.

5. In tight turns your thumb habitually presses down as if you'll engage a jump and slide move.

6. When you make it through a green light before the person in the next lane...you hear the MarioKart "whistle" sound in your head as if you just crossed the finish line.

7. The pre-race music plays in your head when you sit at a red light.

That's all I got for now. Anyone else have any?