Sheesh….. you would think I would of learned and typed the prior blog in Word… like Rachel told me to…. So I wouldn’t lose it… but nooo…..
Well… here I am in Word… finshing the story, that I already finished and lost…..
To finish the story….
I told Andres that in our family we show respect and love by valuing other people’s time.
(My brother is probably cracking up right now b/c our family had an issue with time when we visited them! - Hi David!)
Anyway… I told Andres that in our family if we stole other people’s time we had to give even more time back.
I could see he was starting to understand the concept so I continued …
I told him he could give Claudia back her time by washing all the lunch dishes ( 46 + girls ), he could give Heidy back her time by doing her chores and he could giver me back my time by serving the people that are serving me/us and do the yard work with the Rafael.
It was like a cartoon! As he read his eyes got bigger…. And Bigger and BIGGER…. And he looked at me with a look of disbelief. I couldn’t help but laugh : ).
I told him I would not ask him to do those things this time b/c this was new to him, but now he knew, and he was accountable.
It is those teachable moments with our children that I love. If I can stay patient, and pray, and see the opportunity, it always brings us closer.
I am grateful to be here, in this beautiful, quiet piece of heaven so I can slow down enough to enjoy these initial opportunities to shepherd Heidy and Andres’ heart.
Hmmm…. It just occurred to me…
Maybe God has me here in this beautiful, quiet, piece of heaven so He can shepherd MY heart.
Lord please help me to stay in the moment…. And not long for home so much that I miss You…. Amen
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