Ok maybe it does...

I had a blog post yesterday about how difficult Sunday mornings can be when you've got young children.  The perfect Sunday of a peaceful and wonderful morning just doesn't usually happen.  Today was pretty great though.  Several children in our Sunday school department accepted Christ.  That alone would have made the morning pretty great.  I really love this verse:

Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Can you picture that?  What it must look like when the angels rejoice?  They are rejoicing today!!!  Praise the Lord!  My husband recently started helping with the third and fourth grade Sunday school class.  It wasn't easy to have my husband leave early to go help with Sunday school but I'm so very thankful that he did.  He got to be witness to something really amazing this morning.

He also gave blood for the first time today.  It's like he's changing before my very eyes because giving blood is not something that would have ever been on his radar before.  But he did it!  We were told that this was a huge day for the blood bank.  On a normal day they might get fifteen donations and today they got forty-two.  That's huge!  And they got one more than last year.  :)  When I had our last baby the surgery was very high risk and I lost a LOT of blood.  I needed a blood transfusion and  I'm grateful for blood donors!


At our church, Sunday school is during the first service and in the second service the younger kids can go to children's church.  We used to go to church while our kids were in Sunday school but now stay through both services.  Our oldest has never had communion before - not because we didn't feel she was old enough.  She is plenty mature enough to have the understanding of it all and she is a follower of Christ, but she just hasn't ever been in church when we were doing it. Today she was though.  And if there was any doubt in my mind that she had the understanding, today's sermon was about communion and she heard every bit of it.  What a precious thing for this mama to get to be with her when she had communion for the first time.  In my mind this is bigger than the first day of school or losing a tooth, this felt like a biggie.

As if all that wasn't enough, I got to go to my own Sunday school class starting today.  A class going through the Bible from cover to cover.  An entire hour of adult conversation WITH donuts!  My toddler was well cared for, my four year old had a ton of fun, and we came home to lunch in the oven.

Have you ever noticed how if you say "I will never..." then God has you do it?  I once said I would never marry someone from California.  I don't know why, but see how that worked out.  I'm glad that I said the perfect Sunday doesn't exist because I was blessed with a pretty good one today.

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.