BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!
lol. Sorry. Just had to break up the excruciating drone of silence present in the Holmes household this morning. I just dropped ALL FOUR of my children off at school this morning for the first time ever and the peacefulness is deafening!
It's funny... I cried like a baby to take the older three to school on their first days. I think because I could sense their nervousness and stress about the whole thing, the unknowns... They were hesitant and I empathized with them. I have always been awkward with new situations (other situations too, but more so the new ones : ) so I felt their pain.
Well Clayton just gave me a great day! He is my 3 year old. He has cried every single morning and thrown a fit in the parking lot of the school every day that I have taken his brother and sisters to school and not him. Every day, he would wake up, grab his backpack and stand at the door expecting to get to go to his "big class."
So today, I couldn't help cracking up instead of crying when he (without looking back) bounded excitedly into his classroom, took his little Elmo backpack off and started looking around, unafraid, for his cubby. I had to call him back for a kiss, otherwise I probably would have been the one crying and throwing a fit in the parking lot!
The whole situation got me thinking about how we are with God, and also with our churches and relationships... How am I when I am offered an opportunity, a chance to grow? I would like to think that I am more often excited and eager to see what lies on the other side of that new experience. But I know that I have also been resistant and fearful at times. I wonder how God feels to watch me pushing and fighting against what's best for me... and how happy He must be when I bound right into something, confident and brave and joyful, grateful for an opportunity.
I learned a lot from Clayton this morning.
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