Chaos. Answering back, rolling eyes, aggressive play, words without love, stroppy attitude, selfish heart, blaming ... I could go on.
You know those times when you realise that all of a sudden the chaos that has ensured is actually a build up from the last weeks or months.
When we get busy, distracted, or disorientated from our parental mission things can go awry. Normally we tend to wonder how it has happened, then we realise over time, our slight divergence, our centimetres off course becomes a metre, from where we can still see our intended track. After a short time that metre becomes 50 metres off the track we were on, then 100 metres and if we continue we will miss the mark we were aiming for, our destination will be vastly different, we may even find ourselves lost.
This very morning we realised we have missed the mark. It had been brewing for the last 5 days, we can see that now, thanks to hindsight. Out focus took a slight divergence, and we kept moving forward, off track.
It's hard to stay your course when life gets busy. We know this all too well. We've been blessed with family staying, and it has been great, they were not the divergence, we allowed others things to crowd in. Now we are having to refocus.
At times like this, refocusing can feel very overwhelming. Yet all it takes is a refocus, parents in control, not children out of control. The time is now for pulling back the freedoms our children have taken and we have inadvertently given.
May honour return to our home. Honour of God, each other, visitors, and ourselves.
No comments:
Post a Comment