Did I ever happen to mention that I love my kids. Well, I love the wife to. After all she is the mother of both our kids. Cathy lived up to her nick name tonight. She was grumbly. Tired poor kid. It's me you see. I wear the kid out. Nappy change(diapers for those who live in USA) time is fun time. Now we have discovered foot kicking. It goes like this. One has a race with Dad to see if one can plant a foot in the poo when Dad undoes the diaper. So far were not doing too good, depending on your point of view. Dad so far is one step ahead of his little girl. But it is one slip away from the daughter having success. But the training to keep the legs down upon request is a screaming success. Around 9 out of 10 times she will keep her legs still when asked to. That's not bad for a 5 month old. Who said you can't train them And when she gets praise does her little eyes light up. She just loves the approval. Stephanie is working on the fingers in the mouth thingy. That is a but harder. Consistency is the key. And unfortunately Stephanie can't be 110% consistent. But at this time we are working on training. Stephanie was concerned that I was expecting too much. But as I said, I expect nothing. I am only training.
Look at it this way. When one doesn't know, we train. We expect nothing and so we train. However, once one knows then we expect compliance. Until then we train. A baby knows nothing. It only understands that certain things will bring certain responses. It has no idea what is required of it and mainly doesn't care. At this point of its existence it knows only "self" and "self" satisfaction. It is, to a degree, trying to work out its place and what is required of it and, even more importantly, how it can get what it wants. Our job as parents is to find out what it needs and satisfy those needs before they get out of hand.
Now if we could get passengers to be compliant we would be in business. But that's another story for another time.
Today's Bible reading is 1 Samuel 14.
Here are my comments:
This is how it is done. See verse 6. I like also verse 7. That ought to be my attitude to my leaders. Contrast Jonathan with Saul. Hmmm, I thought the saying went "Like father, like son". Not so here.
Saul comes in for the mop up. But it is the son showing the leadership.
Where am I at? Hmmm, you be the judge.
Now, lets apply the S.O.A.P. principle.
Scripture: 1 Samuel 14;
Observation: See above;
Application: Seek the Lord. Rely on Him. He will get the victory every time. The battle is not ours.
Prayer: Lord, please use me as You will and purpose. Not my will but Thine be done. In Jesus name, Amen
And now finally, maybe. Did I ever tell you that we have a photo page? Well we do. Isn't that good?
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