Posted 8:12 PM by Kathy
Two things of note recently....and I am telling a long one here so bear with me.

Josh, Jensen and I attended a come and go baby shower at our church last Friday night. Afterwards, we went out for pizza with a friend of ours and her 3 year old daughter. Dana went to order pizza and Jensen and Hope were sitting at the table. Josh, in a moment of bravery and gumption, went up to an "army man" in BDUs (camo for those non military brats out there) and just started asking him questions. This is SO unlike Joshua. We don't encourage him talking to strangers at all, but we do allow him to show interest in others and ask them questions if we are with him. Usually, he'll say, "Mom, you ask him." and I'll say, "No, if you have a question, you can get the answer." But, he just was so very outside what I thought he would do here. Dana was watching and trying to listen, she kept smiling back at me to see if I was watching. After a few minutes, Josh came to the table and sat down. Before I could talk to him about the man, he said, "Oh man, I forgot to ask him what kind of weapons he has. I want to ask him, but I don't want to disturb him." I really didn't get I chance to say anything before he got back up and walked over there. The next thing I know, he's asking me if he can sit with the army man if it's OK with him. Taken aback, I said sure and he sat over at the next table with this guy for over an hour. He had a computer and Josh got him to download Google Earth and they spent a lot of time "traveling" across the world together. I wish I could have heard everything they said, Josh kept up a steady, but not incessant stream of converstion. It so very sweet.

The best news is that Josh has an appointment to speak with our pastor regarding his next step in his walk with Christ. He doesn't put it this way though. He said to me, "Mom I want to be baptized and live a good life in Heaven with Jesus." If he's not quite ready to make this decision now, he soon will be.

Isn't parenting wonderful, expecially when all is well.

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