well, i feel as though it has already been said. I sat out on my porch, huddled on my rocking chair scribbling away in my journal for-ever it seemed.
This weeks bible study was on forgiveness. We are doing 40 days of love and it is an incredible study. It goes thru everything.. even things that seem ‘duh’ to some are complete eye-openers to others and it has brought forth a healing in some relationships around me that i can see already..
we had another moment of ‘learning’ for Gavin (and myself) today… and we got rid of all of his toys. I know ‘yikes’.. it was a hard day for him, he even lost his XBOX. … It was a lesson in “my life is hard!!” really?? mixed with his constant disregard for ‘value’ in what is his.. if that makes any sense. It does not matter if it breaks, gets stolen, or just taken away. “that is ok, i will just another one” very flippantly. So, we had a little chat about how there are children with nothing, not even shoes or food in the refrigerator that he raids every chance he gets, let alone 1 toy.. My sons life is far from hard and he is surrounded by people who love him.. unfortunately, some people feel as though gift giving at every chance they get is a sign of that instead of the ‘time’ that he really craves with them…
So today we learned what it would be like to have 1 toy.. giving the rest to those who have none.. a hard lesson, but hopefully one that will add character to a child that is blessed with so much more than ‘toys’..
