Whenever I hear/read about the wedding in Cana (John 2) I smile.  Aahhh a mother’s relationship with her son!  I love how Mary simply says “they have no more wine” and “do whatever he tells you”….I know I’m skimming the theology of this situation but I can see Jesus shaking his head as if to say “oh mom” but because of his love for her he obliged her request.  As my boys were growing up they learned to respect me through the example of their dad and he learned that respect from his dad, and they both have a deep love for the Lord through which they learned respect.

My boys would do anything within their power to help me, protect me, take my bad mood away and they each have unique ways of putting a smile on my face.  I sure do miss that.  But I’m so proud and happy of the young men they are becoming and to see their respect not only for their mom, but for women in general.

Love this crazy bunch of kids!

Recently I had a disagreement with one of our boys here in Kenya (one of the boys not living at C4KK Children’s Home so we don’t have a lot of contact with him).  He called me saying he needed (wanted) funds to attend an agriculture fair in Nairobi with his school.  We agreed to give him a portion of it and have his mother put up the remainder, to which she did.  Then he called me after the fair and said his school had kicked him out because he didn’t pay the damages from Term 2.  I told him rather firmly that he should have told me this BEFORE asking for money for the fair.  I explained he certainly didn’t NEED to attend the fair to stay in school, but he does NEED to pay for damages to stay in school (if he doesn’t pay the school just won’t feed him…he can attend school but not be fed, to which we’ve already paid his school fees and food is SUPPOSED to be included in that figure but lets’ not get into that).

I told him I’d have to think about what we would do and get back with him.  He wrote me a text the next day:

Dear mum, am so sorry for what happened.  I don’t have gigantic words to express how sorry I am, okay, am human I understand how you feel.  Here I have a quote “Art of Living-Just as a reflection cannot be seen in boiling water the same way truth cannot be seen in a state of anger.  So keep cool always”.  I love you mum.

I immediately wrote him back and told him no matter if I’m angry, upset or disappointed, I would continue to love him.  That wouldn’t change.  Before he went back to school I was able to talk with him and reiterate my sentiments, telling him the love I have for him comes from the love Christ has shown me.

I’m praying he is learning the same respect my boys have learned and know deep down that just like my boys in the states there is nothing he can do to stop me from loving him.