Merry Christmas from the Sherwood's

I sent most of you my Christmas video, but in case you didn't get to see it.....here it is on utube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-kI8A42v8

I LOVE babysitting!

Today I got Laura Jo all to myself....This gal cracks me up....Here she is playing peek-a-boo......can you stand yourself?

All My Family.....

I'm such a great golfer

from Streams in the Desert:

I once heard a story of a mother who brought a crippled boy with a hunched back into her home as a companion for her own son. She warned her son to be very careful not to refer to the other boy's deformity, since this was a sensitive matter to him. AND she encouraged him to play with his new friend as if he were a normal child. But after listening to her son play with him for a while, she heard him ask his companion, "Do you know what that is on your back?" The crippled boy was embarrassed, hesitated a moment, but before he could respond, his friend answered the question for him by saying, "It is the box that holds your wings, and someday God is going to break it open, and you will fly away to be an angel."
Someday God is going to reveal this fact to every Christian: the VERY things they now rebel against are the instruments He has used to perfect their character and to mold them into perfection, so they may later be used as polished stones in HIS heaven yet to come.
Suffering is a wonderful fertilizer for the roots of character. The great objective of this life is character, for it is the only thing we can carry with us into eternity. And gaining as much of the highest character possible is the purpose of our trials.