Sep. 25, 2006 - Honey, get me the shotgun!!!!
I am not a big fan of guns. Never have been. And I may sit on the conservative side of party lines but I do not support alot of the what the NRA stands for. That isn't to say that I don't respect a persons right to own a gun. But I think they take things too far. However, after this morning, I may change my mind. :) Let me explain.
God has a very interesting sense of humor. I have been praying for help to get up early in the morning. It seems that whether my alarm goes off at 5am or not, I wake up. But if I don't go to bed early, that waking up doesn't just happen. God has to help me. The alarm doesn't do any good anymore and He knows it. I just hit snooze and go back to sleep. He must send other means to get me out of bed.
This morning is was an owl. Yes, that's right. An owl.
(I imagine this probably what he looked like.)
We live in a suburban neighborhood with a resident owl in a small patch of trees behind the local school that is across the street. He must have been very hungry this morning AT 5AM!!!!! He perched himself on a neihbors tree or house across the street and hooted for what seemed like forever. URGH!!!!! Because of all my travel planning yesterday I got in bed late again. So getting up at 5am was not my idea of fun. At one point I thought the owl was gone but I could hear him in the distance. He came back. And I really hope his breakfast gives him heartburn or indigestion later in the day. (Has anyone seen the cat?)
This has been happening for weeks now. Not the owl. The waking up. It seems God will just simply wake me between 4:30 and 5am. Which is coincidently the time I have been praying for help to get up. I guess He's taking my prayer seriously. Of course, I have also awakened at the same time every night with my other pregnancies. It's also the same time (literally) that my newborns would wake in the night to nurse or to have a bottle. That doesn't bode well for me though considering I use my nursing babies as my birth control for the first half of their year. It's a good thing we cosleep for the first few months. Hopefully they will take advantage of the plentiful harvest infront of them and nurse like crazy. I won't notice. I sleep through most of it. LOL!!!!!
No, I don't plan to shoot the owl. But I do plan to talk to God about His methods of waking me up. Now, I must go take some Tylenol to get rid of the headache I got from waking up too early.
Comments
Sep. 25, 2006 - Too funny!
Posted by icart61
One of those watch what we ask for...we may actually get it! I know what you mean about the gun...until I moved to Memphis there was NO WAY! Now there is...I thank God I live in a country where I have that choice!...but don't shoot the owl, icart
Sep. 25, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by babymakers
I hope you change your mind about guns someday. It is in our best interest to keep guns. If everyone has them then the crime rate is actually lower! All through history before an attack on people the government took away guns first. The one I can think of off the top of my head that I know you would know is Hitler. So, now that you are learning to like guns LOL you should learn to use them too! I hope your owl problems get fixed.
