Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Does parenting always have to "wear me out" like this, Lord?
I don't know about you all, but sometimes I have to admit, parenting wears me out! Constant coaching, correction, teaching, encouraging and prodding is what I feel like I am in all the time. This week is Anna's birthday. So of course, there is a bit of extra "hoop-lah" surrounding her. And her birthday party was a week and a half ago, so to her sister, it seems like for an eternity all eyes have been on Anna, and she just finds that hard to deal with! So, just hours before we were to have a family dinner celebration for Anna, I spent a lengthy bit of time reviewing with Sarah the value of a selfless heart, and the importance of celebrating each other in love. Of course, as always, I brought the conversation around to "what Jesus would do and what He wants you to do". Even as I wrote those words above, describing what I feel like I'm constanting doing, He reminding me that that is exactly what He is constantly doing with me. Ah... how the Lord uses those kids to see ourselves in the true light... I'm sure I "wear Him out" quite a bit as well. Thanks, Lord for your patience with me! Grant me the grace to show my kids the same level of patience as you do!
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I second the motion that parenting sucks at times...oh wait, that's not what you said, is it? :\ I guess sometimes I want to be the child. I don't want to say no a million times and dole out punishments and be the teacher. I'm still learning myself, for heaven's sake. And they're old enough now to call me on the stuff I get on to them about, but yet don't practice myself. Ouch. Ok, as long as you brought it up, KJ, I'll confess that I've been feeling really defeated in the area of parenting lately. I don't know WHAT I'm doing and I find myself at the end of the day feeling like I am setting my kids up for counseling for the rest of the their lives. I mean, where will they get the money for that?? Maybe I'll be selling more cakes by then.
As said by the wise Ethan Micah-Shane Lee..."no, no, no, no, no, I was using this as a TEACHING EXPERIENCE!" :) I know life is one BIG teaching experience for me! I am so glad that God allows for a learning curve, and gives wisdom where we lack it.
Amen to that. c
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