Every year I approach VBS with one thought..."What family is going to be most blessed by VBS"?  Each year is different and the stories are always interesting.  I've had years when families used VBS as a way for the kids to be watched while a parent underwent surgery, years when a family member died and we watched the kids while the family made arrangements, times when grandparents got the grandkids for a week and they wanted to make sure the grandkids learned about Jesus, we've had too many stories to describe here too. In my twenty years of organizing VBS, this year, I finally realized, every family is blessed by VBS, but none moreso then my own.  VBS is for many a family event, and this is very true for my family.  It is also a great time for my family to truly "see with their heart, eyes and soul" that the Kingdom of God is ever present in all we do, even the smallest detail and most mundane.  This is true in all we do, not just the VBS events, also the daily events of life.  Take time today to spend a minute in prayer thanking God for all the "issues, crisis, mundane and extraordinary", it is through all these events that God is present, we need only take time to thank Him for it all! 

I have spent more than a fair share (in my opinion) of time in waiting rooms lately.  I spent time today in the day surgery center while my husband had a biopsy and I am always amazed at the different dynamics of families.  I am very much a loner in the waiting room,  I bring work and a good book.  This isn't to say I mind visitors.  Others, bring huge support systems, spouses, family, church members, ministers.  What I find most interesting is the conversations. 

WOW, Blogger is not something I ever thought I would be doing, but then it made total sense that in today's environment, you must use every means of communication. Communication, it is essential to living.  Without it, how would you know that dinner is ready, or the news of the day, or even to hear (or sign) I LOVE YOU to the most important people in your lives.  And  in this technological world we communicate in a personal way via e-mail, internet, texting, cell phone and blogging, not to mention the good Ol' fashion one on one time!