Mom was talking to us today about how we get so caught up in the activities of our lives that we forget to be a part of people's lives. She said that one of our church members, who is recently widowed, had a group of people stop by her house and clean her gutters, trim her bushes and offer to paint her house...all at no cost. It was a group from a church in the area who had decided to adopt that block and help them out. Shouldn't it have been her church family coming over to help her, without her having to ask. Our bulletin's are full of dinners and activites for the upcoming weeks, our schools offer so many programs, our jobs require more and more time (or so we think) that we forget in all of this the people who are around us. What if for every activity we removed from our lives, we replaced it with helping/loving someone around us, what a difference we could make. What if for every hour we didn't stay late at work, we took dinner to someone who just needs a friend, how could God use us? Just thinking about it and typing it out in this blog is really making me think about how we, as a church and as individuals, need to transition our thinking from how can we provide activities to new people so they will want to come to our church to how can we show the people around us God's love so that they will want to come to God. Just a little something I will be thinking about this week.

What cute boys!

* Will is 4 months younger than Carson, can you tell?
*The Royals won 9 of 10 times Carson was at the game and 8 of 8 times Will was there (over the past 2 seasons).
*They are both big Royals fans but Carson is a Chiefs fan and Will is a Colts fan (but still supports his hometown football team unless they are playing the Colts) "Blue 18 Baby"
*Carson's favorite sport - Basketball (he surfs the TV until he finds a game and then sits there in awe)
*Will's favorite sport - Soccer (thanks to his Papa and to cousin Sierra who is an amazing soccer player)
*Will just started saying ball but when he says it, he says really loudly "BAH" over and over. (Which sounds a lot like what he says when he's playing peak a boo.
*Both boys are the apple of their mother's eyes!!! And their Nana kind of likes them too!