Yesterday Anna was playing on a stool and I asked her not to play on it. Well needless to say as two year old wisdom would have it she disobeyed and played on it anyway. It fell on her foot and hurt her toe. After she calmed down from crying she said, Mommy I am not going to play on that stool anymore. I am going to tell Jesus I am not going to play on that stool anymore. I said, Ok. She proceeded to say this with her head bowed and her hands folded in prayer: Dear Jesus, I am so sorry for playing on the stool and I will never ever play on the stool again so my toe doesn't get hurt. I am so glad to see that even at an early age she knows she can turn to the Father. Isaiah 54:13 "All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children." After she said, her prayer she was calm and began to play again.

Sometimes I get sooo tired of doing correction when it would be so much easier for me to pick up the toys than to ask 5 times for her to take 30mins. to pick up what I could pick up in 10mins. Sometimes it would be so much easier to say, yes you can have that than to say no 79 times in a row, but I want her to know "no means no". Sometimes it would be so much easier to ignore who I am talking to answer her so she will stop the incessant "mommy, mommy, mommy". Why do I chose the harder path, you may ask? How do I keep following this path I've chosen you may wonder. I gain my strength and endurance from the verse GAL 6:9 "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up"

I try to remember that Jesus was a toddler too and even he had to grow wisdom and favor with God, check it out it's in Luke 2:52 So all you struggling mom's keep your head up our season's coming!