Sunday, August 23, 2009

Annoying Love!!! ;)

It's the end of the day at work and I am basically running around like a wild woman, trying keep the house clean before the parent's come home. Which basically means I just follow behind Wesley picking up everything he destroys as he walks by. The whole time I am doing this, Ella who is five, is like trying to get my attention. "Mary, do you wanna bounce this ball? Huh, Mary? Huh? Well do you?" and I am like not really paying attention cause Wesley got a hold of a pen and I am like "GIVE THAT TO ME!!!"
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So finally Ella is like, "Uh Mary, would you like to get rid of some more of your fatties?"
I am like "WHAT?!?" (LOL) Now she had my attention! She is like VERY nonchalant when she is talking, "would you like lose some of your fat?" I am like, "Uh," She is like "You know LOSE WEIGHT Mary!!!" I am like totally laughing now! "Uh, yeah Ella. Sure!" "Okay then," she says handing me the ball, "Just bounce this ball." I am like "soooooo all I have to is bounce this ball and I will lose weight?" and she is like, "No Mary, it's called EXCERCISE!!! if you wanna lose your fatties you gotta excercise."
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Sooooo I am just standing there bouncing the ball thinkin in my head GREAT sooooo NOW I have a five-year-old weight loss trainer!!! HAHA!!! She looks over and gives me an approving nod. "Good job Mary! See, I am over here bouncing my ball too," she says. "I am excercising." I don't need to, but I am doing anyways with you!" "Awww how sweet of you," I say rolling my eyes!
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But I got to thinking about it...Have you ever noticed that it's the people your closest too that can be the MOST annoying?! They get onto you about all your little problems. The things you need to change, or work on. Have you ever wondered why it's the people we love that can cause us so much irritation?! I think it's because the people that love us are the ones that actually care! The bible says in Proverbs 3:12, For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
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Sometimes it's hard to realize, that when we are being corrected, we are in fact being loved. Some people might have gotten offended by a little girl saying that to me. However, I didn't see it like that. She wasn't making fun of me, just being honest and truthful, which can be annoying, but none the less, still the truth.
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...I will neverleave thee, nor forsake thee. (Hebrews 13:5) Just like Ella was excercising with me, EVEN THOUGH she didn't NEED too, God is with us helping us change the things we need to change in our lives. And so it's the same with the people that really love us. Not only are they willing to give advice they are willing to do it with us...something to think about the next time we find ourselves giving advice...Do I care enough to not only tell them what they need to do to change...but am I willing to be right there by their side as they change? Hmmmm....
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I look over at Ella, we are both still bouncing our ball. Yup, sometimes love is just PLAIN ANNOYING! She looks over at me and smiles.
"I love you Mar!" I kinda sigh and just roll my eyes, then I smile, because I KNOW she means it! "I love you too girl!"