Children are a gift from God, so they tell me. The Bible describes them as quivers in my arrow holder thingy. Some days though it doesn’t feel like a gift, and I’m the one left quivering. Challenges abound in a household of four young children. Challenges like eating lunch without falling out of your chair, walking quietly by your sister’s bedroom door when she is sleeping, sharing your favorite car (wait, was my favorite one the blue one or the red one… maybe it was the black one, I forget) with your brother, standing while drinking instead of hopping, and ..ahem.. bathroom aiming. With all these challenges it is easy to get frustrated and expect a four year old to act like he’s ten. But we have to force ourselves to stop and remember that this young life has been placed into our care and we can’t take that for granted.
So, the next time you deal with the challenges of your children and begin to quiver, remember that a fragile life is placed in your hands, and you’ve been given the privilege and responsibility to guide and instruct that one as patiently and lovingly as you can.
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