STING!!

The title is for you, Scott....hahaha!

Last night went well (generally speaking) as we ate supper together at Dick's pizza and then went to watch the Pirate movie at the Wheelersburg cinema. Although, 2 of the people in our group didn't get their pizza until after all of the rest of us were finished eating. It's really uncomfortable eating in front of your friends. So, I kindly started offering everyone else's pizza to them....hahahaha!

The movie was not as good as the first Pirates of the Carribean, in my opinion. I felt like they were trying to almost out-do themselves but failed at doing so. There were many great scenes and some good lines spoken in the movie, but it was pretty bloody and down right disgusting. I felt like they were trying to "gore" people to death in the theater instead of "wow" people with good content. It is like they used all of the good stuff they had for a movie in the first one and therefore ran out of anything of substance for the next one. Several of us in the group were complaining about how we were just ready for the movie to end. It was such a long movie! Then, one of us actually made the statement (after the movie) "Doesn't anyone die on this movie?". You'll just have to see the movie to know what I'm talking about.----That is, now that I've talked you all into wanting to see it.....hahaha!

The highlight of the evening for me was when we were at Dick's pizza. Jamie and Kendall came to eat supper with us before going home while the rest of us went to the movie. Kendall was playing with Scott after we were finished eating by pretending she was a bee and stinging him. She never really touched him at first but would simply hold her arm straight out "power ranger style" and yell "STING!!" and then giggle at him. We couldn't figure out what she was doing or why she felt the need to sting Scott so we asked her what she was suppose to be. She said "A PRINCESS!" Needless to say, we didn't see the correlation between "STING!!" and "PRINCESS!" so we just laughed and went with it. At one point, Kendall had become a little concerned that Scott was going to get her so she quickly ran to her daddy's arms and was launched up high in the air to daddy's height and held closely to him. Once she was safe in her father's arms, she held her tiny little arm out toward Scott, fist clinched, and yelled "GET HIM!!!!". Her daddy charged forward with her tightly in his arms so she could "attack" her "enemy". She was not scared and, in fact, became bolder while in her father's arms.

Well, this brought about a great blog post that I have been anxiously wanting to put on here for others to read. I couldn't help but see Jamie and Kendall's playing with Scott as being like the spiritual battles we face. If only we could believe that we are riding along in our Father's arms, we would become bolder and fear would disappear!