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Jun. 6, 2008 - "Wolid Wocks"

We're having an 'at home' vacation this week since my dh is off work.  So far we've been to the beach, dismantled the swing set area to put up a pool and the trampoline and had a day of berry picking, shopping and eating at a super-fun restaraunt.  Today we have a birthday party and who knows what else will come up, but we are all enjoying not being on regular schedule.

I think I mentioned in a previous post that I'm going through the small-but-wieghty book "Won't Let Go Unless You Bless Me" by WORLD Magazine columnist Andree Seu. She is a phenomenal writer and I highly recommend the book.  (It's a compilation of columns from several years) 

This morning I read the article entitled House of Unraveling. It really got me thinking.

One of my 4 yo sons favorite songs to sing, because he has the chorus memorized, is "On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand" .  He has had a speech impediment since he started to talk that renders all s's, th's, sh's,  f's and any other unpronouncable letters as W. So the chorus sings thus:

                            On Cwist the wolid wock I 'tand; All other gwound is winking wand.

I love singing that song wth him!  Sadly he is learning the right pronunciation and we graduated to F sounds and now at last S's and Sh's are understandable :(

But this morning's read compared the writer's life to Shylock in Shakespear's Merchant of Venice.  He goes from wealth to woe in 24 hours.  He loses "his ducats and his daugther" . Everything goes down from there, ending quite unhappily. Love that Shakespeare.  What was he standing on?

I immediately thought about Job, Paul and the rich young ruler.  Two of them lost it all.  Paul probably multiple times. One wouldn't let go.      What were they standing on?

Mrs. Seu says, "God is in the business of bringing one's trust to light, of pulling rugs of our own making from under our feet."  

We don't like to think about losing anything.  'Stuff' most of us can get over.  Alot of of it can be replaced.  People - that's tougher.  I've watched family members over the last several years struggle with that loss. It becomes apparent very quickly where you are standing when the rug comes out and you come down.  A  mother, a grandmother, a 100 year old aunt, a pre-term baby, and very soon another grandmother. The responses to grief are varied - and telling. Some still have not recovered- probably never will.  Others have a Hope.

                    My Hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness;
                    I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly trust on Jesus' name.

                    When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest upon unchanging grace;
                    In every rough and stormy gale My anchor holds within the veil.

                    His oath , his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood;
                    When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my Hope and Stay.

                    When I shall launch in world's unseen, O may I then be found in him;
                    Dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.

                    On Christ the solid Rock I stand; All other ground is sinking sand.

I see a homeschool parallel too.  Are my curriculum choices my Solid Rocks? Will I really ruin child A if I choose curriculum B? Will their character be marred if I don't study History chronologically this year?  Good thing my oldest won't have to decline any Latin nouns at Heaven's gates for entry; I don't think he'll remember alot of his Vocabulary from this year. ~you get the idea.

Am I on wolid wocks or winking wand today? 
I don't relish the thought of being 'proven' to find out, but I'm pretty sure I know where I stand.

~Cindy

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