Patience, Kids, God…
With our little clan of 5 ankle-biters, patience is not just a virtue, it needs to be built up every morning, because it’ll get torn down by evening.
I lose my patience… a lot. I yell, I rant, but I also calm down (eventually) and go find the little brain of mush that I just scarred for life and try to reconcile.
As a father, I hear myself saying things like: “how many times…”, “don’t do that…”, “why did you do that?”, “what were you thinking?” — what really hurts in the reflective moments of the day (ya know between 10:01 – 10:04PM) … God doesn’t berate me like this.
Oh sure, I MAY berate myself like: “what have I done?”, “how stupid”, “I have to have this/that…”, but God doesn’t. I’m posting this to remind myself to: - chill - reconcile with the little ones (and the K-ster too) as necessary
Thank God that He’s WAY better than me at the father thing!
Lord, lead me into your patience…
Author: Brett Veenstra | Category: Father | Comments(2) January 2006
love the pic.<br/><br/>i really can’t image what it’s like having 5 kids… 5 different personalities that you can see parts of yourself in. 5 different noses. crazy.<br/><br/>on the patience thing, i know for me part of it is patience, and part of it is simply being overloaded. Too much sensory input puts me over the edge sometimes… so i wonder how much of it (for me at least) is a true patience thing and how much of it is too much current flipping my circuit breakers. That’s not to say that i can’t grow in my ability to handle more stuff… and who knows maybe there is no real distinction, just something i’m making up.
I totally hear ya on the stimuli.<br/><br/>I’m just glad God is big enough to take in the whole of Creation’s stimuli and still want to spend time with me!