My sweet Joseph.
This kid keeps me on my toes at all times during the day. He is so inquisitive and smart and really knows how to stump me often. He has more energy than I can muster, which makes it hard to keep up with him. His brain is ever turning and questioning....which in turn makes his mouth speak ever so often.
Yesterday I had absolutely no patience for him and his thoughts and really wanted to talk to my sister Alison on the phone. He kept interrupting me and I finally had the thought to distract him from me. I grabbed his journal and told him to write about art class. This would work!! Right???
A minute later he called my name and I turned towards him a bit irritated. I asked what he wanted and he wanted to know if he could write about something he likes instead. I said yes and left the room for my own privacy.
When I got off the phone I went to check on him and boy did the boy put me to shame. This was his journal entry.
I love mom. she is nice. because she is my mom. By Joseph
I've been thinking about this sweet kid all day now. I believe that being a mother and a parent can be one of the hardest things you do on earth. Not everyone is always open about how hard it is and I think we should be. So others aren't worried they are the only ones struggling. We all make mistakes and we all will have short comings and loose our patience with our children. But Heavenly Father knew that. I think that's why he made children so forgiving. Without my children's' constant forgiveness I would feel like a crappy mom all the time. Instead I get to ask for their forgiveness and evaluate myself and the way I treat them and vow to be a better mom tomorrow than I was today. I don't have so much pressure with worry and guilt because I know my boys forgive my shortcomings. So I need to be more like a little child and be more forgiving of their shortcomings...they are only 5 and 3 for goodness sakes!! I love that my young boys teach me such valuable lessons in life all the time. I want them to know, they are helping to shape me into the woman I am becoming. I am grateful for them.
I leave you with a scripture from the Book of Mormon that I've been reflecting on since yesterday.
Mosiah 3:19
For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
