Lately, I have been wanting a lot of things. I wanted my kids to clean their room. They were not as interested in cleaning their room as I was, so I wanted it for them. I wanted to have family time without their devices. They were not interested in putting down their devices, so I wanted it for them. I wanted the kids to work together to make their spaces more organized for maximized playtime. They were not interested in making a bigger mess that they then would have to clean up, so I wanted it for them.
My household was in chaos less than a week before my kids' annual Halloween extravaganza, and everyone was unhappy. I wanted the shoving of debris to end. I wanted the kids to be able to breathe again, with all of their belongings accounted for. And I wanted it enough for all of us.
After a day and a half, the house is looking better, the kids have found many of their missing treasures, and there are murmurs that I may have been right in asking them to deep clean their areas.
Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole Body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the Body’s growth and builds itself up in love. Eph 4: 15-16
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