A Little Mischief

I love to scare people. It's so fun. So the other morning I was lying in bed, dreading getting up for the day. John and I had made plans to go play tennis in the morning and both of us had slept in, but we still intended to go. John was the first one up and while he was sittin' on the pot, I caught a mischief bug. I realized that if I didn't act on it right then, I would just lay there and fall back asleep, being a lazy bum for the rest of the morning and for sure not going to play tennis. So I decided to act on it. As quickly as I could, I threw back the covers and grabbed two pillows from the bed and stuffed them underneath the blankets and threw them back over to cover them up so it looked as if I was still lying in bed with the covers thrown over my head. Then, as quietly as I could, I sneaked into our walk-in closest, past the door where John was. I pulled back his shirts that were hanging on the lower half of his side of the closet, near the corner and crawled behind them and carefully arranged them back over me so as to cover me up. I was hoping my feet wouldn't be noticed. I didn't know if they were showing or not... it was close. Then I did my best to suppress my giggles and waited for him to come out. When he did, he went back into the bedroom to get me and after a few seconds I heard a small little laugh from him. I knew he had discovered the pillows. Then he came walking into the closest and looked behind the door (where I usually hide) with no luck. He left the room and went outside our bedroom to look for me and I could hear him say to himself, "what the heck?" He told me later that because it was still really dark in the rest of our house, he didn't think I had gone out there. So, he came back into the closest and came right to his shirts hanging and started to pull them aside. I yelled out a "RAAA!!" before he was able to spot me and he jumped and let out a real good holler! It was so funny! It's been a long while since I'd scared him enough that he screamed! We had a good laugh and then got ready to go play tennis. We had a blast playing for about two hours and my body is totally feeling it now.

answer to prayer

"Why should this anxious load press down your weary mind? Come, cast your burdens on the Lord and sweet refreshment find."

These few lines from the hymn How Gentle God's Commands came to my mind as I was conversing with God this evening. (it's a mix between the first and third verse of the hymn.) And I realized, yet again, that I've been holding on to my burdens. In sweet release I gave them over to the Lord and was filled with an overpowering sense of gratitude for his perfect love. He really is there for me.

Words just don't seem to express what is in my heart.