I Wanna Buy These Shoes

Today was a good day. Princess Peach tested her boundaries with me today though. She wanted to watch something but Benny was watching a show and was about to leave in five minutes and so I said wait until he leaves and then it turned into a big dramatic ordeal. Then she began to speak to me in a nasty tone. I said, “Excuse me who are you talking to? If you ever speak to me in that tone of voice again I am going to tell your mom. I am not your dog.” Well of course she didn’t like that. She went and pouted to her mom. Later that morning the three of us had a discussion. Princess Peach is altering the story and I raised my voice and said you are not going to lie to your mom about me. My Patron was sitting right there. Princess Peach began to cry and pout saying they love Benny more and people always take his side and bla bla bla. How much of it is true I don’t know. What I do know is that she is manipulating her mom this whole time. She said what she needed to say to get the desired reaction from her mom. Now I never got in trouble or anything like that but the truth is that she treats her brother like, excuse my French, shit and wines when other people treat him nicely. My Patron is trying to reason and bargain with her. She is 10. Don’t coddle lies attack them at the throat. It is a lie that Benny is treated better so attack that lie. My Patron later asks me later to spend more time with Princess Peach because that will make this better. I was fighting the tears the whole time. The whole conversation. Princess Peach just wants her way but mostly her parent’s attention. The only way her mom will really pay her any attention though is if she gets upset and needs to be comforted. Sure I can spend time with her and I will but I will never replace her mother.

I met another American nanny today, A-town. She is from Atlanta. I like Her. Graduated from Georgia Tech so I am pretty sure she is a secret genius even though she was very modest about it. I think we are going to be good friends. She worked in the corporate world before becoming a nanny about 3 months ago. Crazy right. I was hoping that because she was from Georgia she might love Jesus but no luck. I have met a lot of nannies and none of them love Jesus. Thing is I can’t figure out why more nannies don’t love Jesus. Being a nanny is the perfect cover for loving and serving people. You are admitted in the family and interact hourly with these people. So here is a call to all the Christians wondering what to do with their life. Consider being a nanny. Pray about it.

Then lastly a little ramble. I had a Christmas song stuck in my head today. I think its for Christmas anyway. It is the one where the little kid wants to buy the shoes for his mom who is dying and he wants her to look beautiful “if momma meets Jesus tonight.” It’s a Christian song and the Christian in the line who pays for the shoes when the boy is short always moves everyone. Then he sends him off to the hospital and everyone feels warm inside, good deed done. My question is why didn’t the Christian follow that kid to the hospital and pray for his mom and see her healed. Wouldn’t that have been a better Christmas present than some shoes? I don’t know why it bothered me so. It would have been a total risk that could have end without a healing. But what if she was healed? Would the risk have been worth it? The gesture to pay for the shoes was great but I think it is time that we dream bigger as Christians. We have the living God on our and he has commissioned us to heal the sick and raise the dead. We will do greater things than he. Let’s walk in that power. Sorry I took it out on you 90s Christian Christmas song.