Making my heart sing

My son came to me last night wanting to tell me about what he hears the Lord saying to him. He is trying to tell me what he was learning at Awana's the night before. Mind you he is trying to tell me this as I am trying to clean up a MAJOR blow out with Katelynn's diaper right after I had 2 moms come for girlscout cookies After a HORRIBLE day at work. (nothing bad in particular, just me and my own issues) and I am about to blow. Sometimes they want 100% of my undivided attention and they want it right now. So I must have given him "the look" because he told me that he would talk to me about it in a minute. (I REALLY wanted to listen to him, but I had poop coming out of Katelynn's sleeves of her shirt and she gets naked as I am trying to clean her up and she LAUGHS at me!!! so that didn't really do much for me all the while I am starving, Jeremy is outside smoking, and Gavin and Alana are on a high because of having all these people at our house!) So I am SOOOOOOO Not in the mood to hear about Awanas at that very second.

Throw Katelynn into the tub, yell at Alana (sometimes she is SO frustrating), and watch my chili get cold. So now they were all done with dinner, and in Gavin's room playing. I go smoke my cig (nasty habit I know. Need to stop) and try to chill out because I am damn near ready to have a toddleresque fit. So I go back inside and get Austin so that he can tell me what he was wanting to tell me. I hate that it took almost an hour for me to get to listen to what my sweet little boy wanted me to hear. So I ask him what he was wanting to talk about and he said that at Awanas they have been talking about listening to what God is wanting us to do for his will for us. He feels that the Lord is telling him that he needs to help this little boy get his cleft lip fixed. It is an ad in his Field and stream magazine and it tells you that the whole surgery is $250.00 half of the surgery is $125.00 or medications is $50.00. So he tells me that he wants to do it for this little boy who has been waiting 8 years for his surgery. And my heart is breaking for this sweet little boy I call Austin. He wants so bad to be able to help this little boy and unfortunately what I am seeing in my head is "how in heck can I afford $250.00 for him to be able to do this?" and I know that there is NO way I can do that right now. So I ask Austin we need to think about how we can get this money then because we can't just write them a check because that is a LOT of money. But I don't want to tell him no. It is such a good thing for him to be a part of. I suggest that we look somewhere local so that we can help and see the impact. But he is adamant that he wants to help this little boy.

My heart was singing. He told me that he had talked to Gavin and Alana and they were going to help him get the money. Alana was all for it and was so sympathetic with this little boys picture. She immediately emptied her piggy bank into the bucket that we decided to use to keep their money in. Austin told me that they were planning on asking friends and family if they could do chores for them so that they could earn money to be able to send to this little boy. So I have a big heart today with my children. Maybe I am doing something right.