Posts

Showing posts from September, 2010

I KNOW WHAT YOU NEED

Who says that only mothers teach life lessons to their children? As a mother, I can say I have learnt a lot from my child especially in the area of been a child to my Heavenly Father. One of such lessons is how I could be childish (quite different from been childlike) been a daughter to my heavenly Father. Allow me illustrate with the following example. One humid and sunny afternoon, my toddler was very uncomfortable. I guessed her discomfort was from the heat. She kept insisting I carry her even though this did not make her feel much better. I was convinced that a warm meal and tepid bath was all she needed. Knowing what she needed was the easy part. Convincing her about it was a different story. She will not let me put her down long enough to run a bath and get her meal ready. After 10mins of trying to “reason” with a now furious toddler – please don’t ask me why I ever bother to do that - to see the benefits of my proposal, I decided to use my mummy veto. I had long decided tha