Quick Tidbits

Not much to share today just some things that happened this week that have made me laugh and smile.

1) I was walking back from the pool with my kids and I noticed one of them had his initials monogramed on his backpack so we started playing "guess your middle name." I told him that mine started with a "G" and he thought for a second and without hesitation and in complete seriousness said, "Is it Grandma?" Oh my gosh how did he guess it? Just call me "Meika "Grandma" Perkins!"

2) The kids have started making those paper fortune teller things that were popular when I was a kid. When I was young, only the cool kids new how to make them. I just learned how to yesterday for the first time. (So I guess I am "cool" now) Anyway, all afternoon I was followed around by three kids in particular singing "Meika, pick a color, pick a number, now pick another number" to which I would hear some horrible fortune like "You will be bitten by many mosquitos" or "You will get your arm bitten off by a giant human-eating spider." But the best fortune was at the end of a long day, I was busy cleaning off the tables while there was only one girl left waiting for her parents. I had had listened to a lot of fortunes that day but was particularly struck by the one she read me:

"You will always be loved"

It made my day, not only because it is true for all of us, but because it is so simple. In just five words this seven-year old girl reminded me of the truth for which all humans seek, simply to be loved unconditionally in the way that is found only with God.