Moment by moment...

I am not a saver.

I'm a pitcher.

Don't use it?

Pitch it.

Don't need it?

Pitch it.

Don't want it?

Pitch it.

Or give it away. I'm fine with that too.

Just do it promptly.

We had to go through everything we own when we moved into our little apartment and there was a lot of pitching going on (and a lot of giving away as well, don't panic). One of the hardest parts of this process was going through the kids junk...I mean stuff...I mean TOYS. I think about a quarter of our boxes were filled with their toys, and I'm not even joking.

For a few days the kids and I went through them all, toy by toy.

Keep it?

Throw it away?

Give it away?

After this there were still too many boxes, so the process would start all over again.

I have to admit, I'm proud of my kids. They gave away a lot of toys. But there was one very peculiar moment...

Bryan Paul said he was ready to give away his Thomas the Tank Engine toys. This was a big deal because for a few years he ate, slept and drank Thomas...he knew all the characters - and everything about them - by heart (kind of like the Star Wars thing we're working through now...). He was absolutely shocked when I said, "How about we keep them for a little while longer?" For that matter, I was absolutely shocked when I said that as well! I had no reason for keeping them and I cannot explain why I wasn't ready to pitch 'em. So, we took the Thomas bin and put it in the back of the closet...

We picked up sweet "J" on Thursday to stay with us for three weeks. We are strangers to him, and he was a little apprehensive and scared when he first came into our home. Until someone said, "Would you like to play with Thomas trains?" His face lit up and off he ran with the kids. The three of them have been playing Thomas the Tank Engine for days. "J" loves Thomas...just like Bryan Paul did. The two are able to talk for hours about Spencer and Toby and Emily...

And I was able to see a little piece of a bigger picture.

The Lord cares about each moment and directs all the events of my life.

He is the reason Bryan Paul enjoyed Thomas so much to begin with.

He is the reason we still have Thomas toys.

He is the reason we got "J."

He is not surprised at all at these events.

These are HIS events...

HIS moments.