Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Feet in your jammies

It's getting cooler and so tonight was the first night of the warm jammies.
Levi was soooo excited to wear something that even covered his feet! He put those jammies on and zipped them up to his neck and met me in the hallway yelling, "Daddy, lookame, lookame!!" and started dancing!! I was cracking up to see his big smile and little body wiggling around - he then ran back into his bedroom and shut the door, so he could watch himself dance in his feet jammies in the full length mirror on the back of the door.
Tanya was packing up the short sleeve shirts and shorts today into a tote to store for next summer. Levi was noticeably upset and said "no chamees up, no chamees up". Tanya thought at first he was saying "jammies", but then remembered that the word in amharic for shirt is chamois. He didn't want Mommy to take away his clothes :( Tanya then explained how we would be wearing longer sleeves because it was getting colder and longer pants. She also told him that he would always have clothes and shoes to wear, and showed him his warmer clothes hanging in the closet. He seemed very relieved and less stressed about his clothes. I thought of the verse below, how it is easy for me to not be anxious about clothes, I've always had them in excess, It brings new meaning to this verse when your son had to go without clothes/food up until 7 mos. ago.

Mathew 6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

After reading that verse Tanya and I can't help but thing about the faith displayed by Christians in Ethiopia and even around the world. God is making His Word new to us through our children each day.


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