A funny, yet insightful conversation.

Jessalyn has been preparing with One Voice to perform an amazing Easter performance along side Emmy award winning actor Mac MacConnel.

(The performance is tomorrow night..Friday, March 21st at 7pm. For more info go HERE. Let me know if you want to go...I have extra tickets!)

Anyway. In preparing for this, we were searching for "Biblical Sandals" to go along with the Biblical outfit that she needs to wear during a couple of the numbers. This has proven to be quite the task for me. You see..for me, its not like I can just take an afternoon and run in and out of a handful of stores to find the perfect shoes..for the perfect prices. That would result in a ton of buckling/unbuckling of car seats...and dragging of children...and well, its just NOT fun. For me these situations are the kind where I choose three places that I might find what I need and go there...and eventually probably pay way more than I want on a particular item. Josh will testify..."if it saves her sanity than its OK" (usually!).

After spending more time than I wanted on this endeavor I finally settled on a cute pair of $27 shoes and justified it by the fact that she can definitely continue to wear them outside of her Biblical costume.

Jessalyn was super happy and excited with her new shoes and as she was putting them on she noticed the box said $27 on them. She was instantly concerned (being way more money conscious than I would like) and felt bad that I had spent that much money on her shoes. She then proved that she inherited her dads "justification skills" and IMMEDIATELY said..

"Well, I mean...we ARE telling the Gospel to HUNDREDS of people...so its ok"

I had to laugh. Funny that she is justifying the purchase of these shoes by the fact that in her wearing them she will be spreading the Gospel! Yet..she is SO right!

I am happy to know that she "gets" this concept. There are so many Christian families who have a hard time going out on a limb for different ministries. So many families who feel like the extra time it takes is just too much. Ministries like these really take a decent amount of sacrifice and so many people just feel like its too much. I am thankful for all of those who have been involved..and have taken alot of time out of their already busy schedules and have committed themselves to making One Voice happen.

Its not only One Voice either. We have had a crazy week..between Palm Sunday, Good Friday, One Voice, and Easter Sunday our family has given up a lot of our normal routine. (I mean really...we missed American Idol and Survivor last night..ha ha ha) Its just that..for us we try to see the big picture and if our kids have to get to bed a bit late a few nights of this busy season its going to be OK.

If you had asked me earlier in the week I would have questioned it myself. I would have wondered if we were doing the right thing by putting so much into ministry this week that it seemed like our family was a bit out of whack. It wasn't until Jessalyn pointed out that it was OK for us to spend a little extra money on shoes to spread the Gospel when I realized that it IS OK! We DON'T do this every week. A majority of our weeks are spent with a normal routine, normal bedtimes...even within our normal "ministry work".

I was relieved to know that during weeks that are a bit out of the ordinary that our kids are 'getting' the picture of what we are doing...and feel as though they are a part of it.

Sometimes its fun to learn these types of lessons from a 7 year old!