Ever wonder if God has those moments all the time? I
do. Surely, the wonderful Creator who
made us be able to laugh at ourselves, also enjoys that emotion? Watching us go about our daily lives thinking
we have things all together, He has to have a certain sense of humor don’t you
think? How else could He not just give
up on us if He didn’t?
Just as parents must learn to finally ease up, stop nagging
their children about things in life, God lets us come to him. We parents could
learn a lot from His wise ways.
As parents, my husband and I were actually very lucky with
our children. They didn’t have colic and give us sleepless nights looking for
ways to calm them down and sleep. Okay,
we had one daughter who wouldn’t go to sleep unless one or both of us sat in
the hallway until she drifted off. Then
there was the phone call from the principal at the school where our first grade
son was attending who informed us that he would be serving a detention the
following day for pulling the fire alarm.
Now that same son is a teacher at the same school and on his first day
teaching sent us a picture of the that same fire alarm and said it was his
first lesson to teach the kids not to touch it.
I can’t wait to see how that goes!
I am constantly trying hard not to take myself so
seriously. I don’t think I’m a horrible
parent, yet each day I worry whether I taught my kids everything they needed to
know. What I don’t realize is that they don’t have to know everything. They
have to know who to trust or go to when they don’t know everything. Isn’t that what our faith is about too? We
may not know everything about faith matters but as long as we know we can go to
God and give Him our worries, cares and “I don’t know anything about this
matter” to Him, we’ll be okay.
So relax and let God guide you in His ways. If you worry about every little alarm being
pulled or dirt put in a baby’s mouth you’ll never laugh again. And life is about laughing and joining God as
He loves us all.
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