Enough!

A weekend or so ago Kristina, Gabe and I were in the living room watching t.v. There had been a marathon of our favorite movies on t.v. all day long and we just kept watching them one right after the other. After a day of laziness everyone had taken taken their baths and I was curled up under a blanket on the couch, Kristina was curled up on the love seat and Gabe was laying in the recliner. All was quiet except for the noise from the t.v.

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A commercial came on and Gabe jumped up like someone had stuck a hot poker under his rear end, lunged towards the love seat and jumped on Kristina yelling the entire time "Booooooom!" She tried to brace herself but she couldn't get herself curled up fast enough. As he landed on her stomach you could hear the breath being knocked out of her.

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She pushed him to the floor and as she was throwing the cover down and standing up she took in the deepest breath I think I have ever heard and as her feet hit the floor she declared "It is on!" She grabbed him by his arms, dropped to her knees and the war began. They wrestled and laughed and tickled each other and kicked and pinched and acted like they were going to lick each other's face or hand and the other one would scream and squeal.

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After about 15 minutes of the on-going wrestling match they were beginning to get carried away. Both Gabe and Kristina can play like that for a short time but eventually someone will cross the line and it goes from wrestling to fighting so there must always be a referee present during their wrestling matches to avoid any body sized holes being placed in our walls.
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"That's enough" I declared.

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They each started standing up and before I could blink my eyes they started pushing and mocking each other and there they were, back down on the floor wrestling and squealing again.

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"That's enough now!" I said again.

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Once again they both got up. Kristina was pushing her long blonde hair out of her face and trying to pull it back up in a pony tail when Gabe took his leg and swept her feet out from under her. As she fell to the floor she looked at him with THE LOOK. She has this look that she can get on her face and as soon as THE LOOK comes across her beautiful face you know it is going to get ugly. It is as if she morphs into a bull....smoke blowing out of her nose, eyebrows turned inward towards her nose, forehead wrinkled and lips puckered. As she took one step towards Gabe I jumped off the couch, my arms spread to seperate them and with my own LOOK I said "For the third and final time that is enough!"

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They both went back to their respective corners breathing heavily as if they had just finished a three mile run. Kristina flopped down on the love seat and Gabe curled back up in the recliner and all was quiet. Looks were continuously exchanged between the two of them and I'm sure there were some promises between them to finish this at a later date and time when Mom wasn't there but for the most part we went back to watching our movies.

Have you ever just had enough of something? Do you ever feel like you have enough of everything? Aren't you glad God's grace is enough? "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. " Ephesians 1:7 When we were fighting with the world and full of sin God softly said I forgive you! His grace is enough!