My Easter Season...and God's Gifts to Me

Easter.... GLORIOUS!!

A few days ago it began with a family/friends gathering at our home my DIL put together. We had a Seder plate with many of the symbols of Passover and such. Read so many scriptures! I can't quite describe the beauty of it all. Anyway, that certainly put me in the Resurrection Day frame of mind.

Yesterday, wonderful message at church...kids and their spouses at our side...another wordless feeling...such depth of gratitude to God for His blessings.

Then, I went that evening to the grocery store because we really needed some items. Through the aisles I was remembering our budget said we had 18Cents left in the grocery column and wondering where else in the budget we could take the money from for the groceries. But I had to get them. I get up to the checkout...behind a woman and her husband. They were done, and my groceries were getting rung up. But the wife just hung around. I thought maybe she needed change or something from the cashier... The cashier finished my groceries and handed the receipt to the woman! I said, "those are my groceries" so that she would see her mistake. The cashier said, "no worries". The woman smiled...and paid for my groceries! All I could do with tears in my eyes was say thanks. We introduced ourselves and she said, "just pay it forward". All I can say is, GOD. God knows. He hears. He moves. I am still stunned by the grocery incident. Humbled. And excited. I cannot hardly wait for when God will prompt me to pay it forward, for I know He will! That was my Easter season! Just had to share my praises! He inhabits the praises of His people!♥

WORM-EEEES!!!!!

WORM-EEEES!!!! That's the cry of my grandson Immanuel as he realizes Grandpa and Grammy have a cooler filled with dirt and his newest delight, earthworms!!!

He was here the other day as Grandpa was getting ready for a trip that would include fishing, and he was needing to transfer some of those nice fat worms to his bait box to take along. It was precious to watch "Manny" as we call him, pick up a "worm-eee" fold it around itself and place it in his hand then move it to the bait box where he would ceremoniously deposit it with a word declaring "WORM-EEE" with the biggest sweetest smile! About three dozen times!!

The simple pleasures. That scene has warmed my heart for days! I just wanted to share it with you all!

LEGOS...PART TWO!

Alright, so I feel the need to keep going with the Lego adventure we've been on!!!

Tyler has, since the creation of the first planet probe, added to his fleet. He now has 15 planet probes...he calls them rovers. They each have a name, I can't keep them straight...with different details on each one...no two rovers are alike. Anyway, after the first probe was completed, my DIL was over and mentioned to Tyler, "you should write to NASA and tell them about it." She left to go home, and I didn't think anymore about it. Tyler however, stayed in the office. For about another hour. When he emerged, he had three letters in his hands. One to NASA, one to Kennedy Space Center and one to Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He had used the same letter for each, but had changed the salutation to each one. As he handed them to me, I was well, STUNNED. Tyler has Asperberger's syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, and some wacky sensory issues. He has a one on one aide in school to keep him on task and to help smooth over transitions. This young man, emerged from the home office with a DETAILED paragraph about his creation. There was humor. There was information. There was description. Sure, there were typos, sure some thoughts weren't followed through to completion totally. BUT, the point here, and amazing MIRACLE here, is that he's NEVER before been able to but down on paper two thoughts that flow together. Yet I held in my hands an entire single spaced paragraph!!!! I cried.

Well, I took that letter and wrote a cover letter for it...explaining about Tyler, about his limitations and challenges. About how they were part of a miracle from God. We took pictures of the probe to include with the letter. And then, I mailed it all...to NASA, Kennedy Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Here's the last paragraph I wrote in my cover letter...

"If there is any way that you can acknowledge receipt of his letter back to him, that would be so exciting for him! Thank you for your time and for sharing in this MIRACLE with me!"

We heard back from all three places. With posters, pictures of space shuttles, of crews, of planets, and myriads of facts about space, missions there, and these three centers. He loves to receive mail!! And it all meant so much to him...and me and his dad.

What an absolute treasured gift this has all been from God above!!! Just for us! To add to that, at Christmas time, our oldest son and his family flew home...he is in the Air Force. And he had a gift for Tyler. It was a patch that was exactly like the ones the astronauts wore on their sleeves in space aboard the Endeavour. Zach had received it for working on some of the details concerning that shuttle launch!! That was great too!

Then....yes, this IS the never ending miracle from God to my son...

We heard about a LEGO class that was on-line...a class geared specifically to Asperger's children...about LEGO and engineering... TO BE CONTINUED.....PART THREE TOMORROW!!