Rosie Boom’s Blog

It’s been ages since I wrote anything here!! So much happening and such busy days. Maybe I’ll come back and write a few blogs about some of it. But I wanted to write here a few verses which the family have been memorizing and which have become my daily prayer.

Psalm 143:
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love for I have put my trust in you. (A prayer that I will daily know afresh God’s love)
Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. (A prayer for guidance)
Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord, for I hide myself in you. (A prayer for protection and a place of refuge)
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. (A prayer for personal growth and learning)
May your good Spirit lead me on level ground. (A prayer for the leading of the Holy Spirit)
For your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life. (A prayer for God’s help and salvation)
In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.(A prayer for God’s deliverance when I find myself in times of trouble)
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes (A prayer for God’s victory over my enemies)
For I am your servant. AMEN!

Just a very quick note. My darling mum had a small stroke on Thursday and is in hospital. I am staying in there caring for her, but had a night off last night to come out and celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. What a blessing being able to be with Mum and help her. She is very peaceful and resting in God’s love. Thanks for your prayers.

I got an email from a woman recently who shared with me the pain of trying to have children but not being able to conceive thus far.
It made me think of a wonderful quote I have written in the back of my Bible taken from a letter by Samuel Rutherford, a preacher in the 1600’s. He wrote a beautiful letter to a woman in his congregation who was desperate to have a baby.

“Dear Madam,
Do not prig ( complain, argue) with your gracious and frank hearted Lord about the time of the fulfilling of your joys. It will be; God hath said it. Bide His harvest; wait upon His time. His day is better than your day. It is enough that God hath promised you great things; only let the time of bestowing them be in His own carving.
It is not for us to set an hourglass to the Creator of Time!”

What wonderful advice! How many times in my own life have I ‘turned over an hourglass’ and given the Lord an ultimatum - I need this or that in one month, or two days, or within a year. And this to the Creator of Time! I am slowly learning to surrender my time agendas to Him and ask for the Holy Spirit to help me wait patiently for ‘God’s day.’

On Saturday I went to listen to Eliza compete in the Northland Performing Arts competitions. When we got home at 2pm I found Jacob lying on the sofa, crying whenever his left leg moved. He had come in to our bed at 3am that morning complaining of a sore leg, but it was obviously getting worse. From my foggy, long distant nursing past, I remembered something about some boys of his age having a slipped epiphysis in their hip….he was in a lot of pain, so I took him to A and E. He was X rayed, and the doctor thought he did in fact have a slight slip of his epiphysis. Poor Jacob had to have an IV line put in and bloods taken while waiting for six more hours to see the orthopaedic surgeon who was busy in theatre.
It was a long wait. He kept saying, “I just wish I could go home. I wish they could make me better straight away.”
And I was struggling with thoughts of my darling little boy having to have an operation to fix a screw in his hip. But despite the temptation to think the worst, I deliberately chose not to go there - instead we just prayed and asked God to work a miracle of healing.
Finally the surgeon arrived and after examining Jacob told us that he was pretty sure it wasn’t a slipped epiphysis. Oh joy! But he said we had to stay in hopsital and keep a watch in case he developed an infection.
Jake was a bit nervousa about his first night, but I assured him that I would be right beside his bed. How wonderful that the hospitals have changed their policies and let parents stay!
As we went to bed that night, I prayed for him and then said, “This is a real adventure!” He smiled and went straight to sleep!

Over the next few days we had such a special time together, reading, playing games (he beat me at chess), talking to the other boys and mums…

Then yesterday he was discharged and we came home to the big, noisy, happy family. What a blessing. But it made me so aware of all the families that are going through worrying, difficult times with sick children. And it made me so thankful for health. We really must never take it for granted. Every day we should be thanking God for our wonderful, incredible bodies.

This afternoon I started painting some of the windows in the new house that we are building and they took forever and were really tricky…felt quite discouraged and started thinking we’d be better off getting aluminium ones for the bottom storey - I couldn’t bear the thought of painting all the bottom windows as well. Went back to the house at afternoon tea time and it was in a mess …
I asked my 15 year old daughter Elle to make dinner and went back out to the painting feeling pretty discouraged.
Shortly afterwards she came to the building site to tell my husband and I that we weren’t allowed to go back to the barn until we heard the gong for dinner. I knew something was up!

So we kept working and just before six, nine-year-old Jacob arrived wearing a black coat and tails (I got given three suits at a concert I did recently for the Senior Citizens!), complete with a black twirly moustache painted on, a tie and black pants. He bowed with a great flourish and told us that we were to come back to the barn and get dressed up ready for dinner!!
So I put on a full long skirt and my fur coat and some bling, and Chris got all dressed up in some black trousers and a coat…when we came out the place was lit up with candles, and all the children were standing at attention; the three boys and Milly dressed in tuxedos, and Ellie in a ball dress.

They had set the table with our special plates and written out a flash menu for the delicious dinner, as well as an after dinner plan of events which included a movie and popcorn…what a wonderful, uplifting evening!! And do you know what? The huge task of window painting seemed to dwindle to nothing.

Read a wonderful quote from Rabbit of Winnie the Pooh fame.
“Spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count. You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn’t spell it right.”

Got an email from a friend in London today and he shared this great quote from Einstein.

‘Not everything that can be counted, counts.
Not everything that counts, can be counted’

How true is that!!

A song about how quickly our children grow up! We need to make the most of the years and days and moments when we have them in our home, our lives, our arms. Now on You Tube.

A fun song about some of the challenges that we can face in our homeschooling journey that can make us feel a tad ‘blue’ sometimes. Now on You Tube.

I have just successfully ( I think) uploaded a video of me singing Shepherd’s Call on You Tube and embedded it here on my blog. Hope it works!
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