Spring Is Here!!

The kids told me that Spring is here and that they wanted to get wet.  I put the sprinklers on out back and this is what happened...3 muddy kids and a dog....then Silas sunk out behind me and jointed in on the fun. Everyone had a bath and then dinner tonight....It was so much fun to see them just having so much fun with a little thing like water.   It's times like this when you have to seize that moment because kids want more and more as time goes on.  As a mother I have to make sure I'm not feeding into their wants and forgetting to teach them what their needs are. 
     This morning I was blessed to have read this after time in the Word....

Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
by C. H. Spurgeon
Wednesday Morning, March 17

Remember the poor.

Galatians 2:10
Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor? He could make them all rich if he pleased; he could lay bags of gold at their doors; he could send them a large annual income; or he could scatter round their houses abundance of provisions, as once he made the quails lie in heaps round the camp of Israel, and rained bread out of heaven to feed them. There is no necessity that they should be poor, except that he sees it to be best. The cattle upon a thousand hills are his--he could supply them; he could make the richest, the greatest, and the mightiest bring all their power and riches to the feet of his children, for the hearts of all men are in his control. But he does not choose to do so; he allows them to suffer want, he allows them to pine in penury and obscurity. Why is this? There are many reasons: one is, to give us, who are favoured with enough, an opportunity of showing our love to Jesus. We show our love to Christ when we sing of him and when we pray to him; but if there were no sons of need in the world we should lose the sweet privilege of evidencing our love, by ministering in alms-giving to his poorer brethren; he has ordained that thus we should prove that our love standeth not in word only, but in deed and in truth. If we truly love Christ, we shall care for those who are loved by him. Those who are dear to him will be dear to us. Let us then look upon it not as a duty but as a privilege to relieve the poor of the Lord's flock--remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Surely this assurance is sweet enough, and this motive strong enough to lead us to help others with a willing hand and a loving heart--recollecting that all we do for his people is graciously accepted by Christ as done to himself