Momma In Focus

I took some cute chalk pictures outside with Daisy and we used blue chalk but, I gotta say...this picture makes me so happy...out of focus and all!  As simple as it is it still wins for this week's Blue/turquoise challenge.  This is Daisy to a tee.  She is SO full of energy, SO full of personality.  She wants A LOT of attention and gets very loud if she is being ignored but, then again she is quite loud when she is the center of attention too.  The past few days have been incredibly full....of tantrums and biting..what the heck.  When I gently tell Daisy not to touch something she gets so frustrated and comes teetering towards me at full angry speed with her mouth open and tries to bite my leg or arm.  Ummmmm, where did my sweet Daisy girl of just three days past go???  It is in times like these that I realize that my little baby is growing up a little more every day and I have a big responsibility.  I need to teach her right and wrong and I need to do so in love.  I need to be strong, stay consistent and steady.  It is for her own good and will hopefully be for my good too down the line.  I do it all because I love her and want the best for her but, oh those tantrums...and the many years of tantrums we have ahead of us!  

I cannot think of a better picture for what my relationship with God has sometimes been like than when I observe and ponder my child's relationship with me.  I know that she loves me very much.  I know that I am her security, her safe shelter and she trusts me.  I know that she comes to me when she is hurting and wants me to make it all better but, along with all of those sweet things, come the not the sweet...she also acts out against me the most.  She digs her heels in and gets rebellious, she resists me, she screams at me, she shakes her head no, she bites me and someday she will say hurtful things to me.  I have done and do all of those things to my loving Father in Heaven.  The love I have for my daughter is only a small glimpse of how great God's love is for me and for you and yet still I treat him so badly at times.  There is no example of parenting more beautiful than that of the King of Kings.  Endlessly patient, forgiving, merciful, gracious and loving and gently disciplining regardless of my behavior.  That is what I strive to offer my daughter...a Christ-like example because none compares to that.  I will fail, fail and fail again but, I will definitely try because she deserves that.
"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6

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