Every school day, I bundle my two children and walk/drive/run to the school bus stop in order to get my kindergartner to school. Sometimes we are hurrying to the meet the bus. Yesterday morning was such a morning...
After some delay, we arrive - whew! While I chat with another mother, my son is playing in the snow. He didn't want to put his gloves on at home and now he hands are freezing. We put he gloves on, but they are still cold. He bursts into tears just as the bus pulls up. "I don't want to gooooooo!" he wails and refuses to get on the bus.
A very human part of me wants to yell, "get on the bus! It took us a lot of effort to get ready and get here in time. The roads are snowy and icy, I need to nurse the baby, and I don't want to drive you to school."
But I refrain from such a speech of monster proportions, and instead I say "let's talk about it in the car", and bustle him back into the heated vehicle.
"I don't want to go to school," he sniffles. "Why? What's going on?" I ask.
"I want to play at home. My friends knocked my building of blocks down. We had a substitute [teacher] yesterday. And my hands are cold," he explains.
So we discuss each issue in turn. We resolve them and then he says he feels sick. I asked him, "where?" "In the middle of me," he replies. All of the sudden I get a flash of inspiration. "Is this physical or spiritual?" He responds, "Both." I ask him if he wants to pray about it. He says "yes", so we pray. When we are done praying, he feels better and he hands are warm.
"What do you want to do now?" I ask.
"I want to go to school," he says resolutely. Okay, I say. I have just enough time to get him to the school before he's considered tardy.
During the drive, I ask him: "When you are school, if you feel overwhelmed what are you going to do?" I thought he would tell me he would speak with his teacher or use his words to talk. After all, we had discussed those as solutions.
"Pray. I am going to pray," he responds definitively.
I am blown away. We talked about solutions, but it was the activity of prayer that altered the energy for him.
Prayer is powerful. Never forget the important role of prayer in your life and in the lives of others. By reaffirming our connection with the Divine, we set our fears, doubts, and issues aside as well as place our faith and trust in God's hands. As is well.
After some delay, we arrive - whew! While I chat with another mother, my son is playing in the snow. He didn't want to put his gloves on at home and now he hands are freezing. We put he gloves on, but they are still cold. He bursts into tears just as the bus pulls up. "I don't want to gooooooo!" he wails and refuses to get on the bus.
A very human part of me wants to yell, "get on the bus! It took us a lot of effort to get ready and get here in time. The roads are snowy and icy, I need to nurse the baby, and I don't want to drive you to school."
But I refrain from such a speech of monster proportions, and instead I say "let's talk about it in the car", and bustle him back into the heated vehicle.
"I don't want to go to school," he sniffles. "Why? What's going on?" I ask.
"I want to play at home. My friends knocked my building of blocks down. We had a substitute [teacher] yesterday. And my hands are cold," he explains.
So we discuss each issue in turn. We resolve them and then he says he feels sick. I asked him, "where?" "In the middle of me," he replies. All of the sudden I get a flash of inspiration. "Is this physical or spiritual?" He responds, "Both." I ask him if he wants to pray about it. He says "yes", so we pray. When we are done praying, he feels better and he hands are warm.
"What do you want to do now?" I ask.
"I want to go to school," he says resolutely. Okay, I say. I have just enough time to get him to the school before he's considered tardy.
During the drive, I ask him: "When you are school, if you feel overwhelmed what are you going to do?" I thought he would tell me he would speak with his teacher or use his words to talk. After all, we had discussed those as solutions.
"Pray. I am going to pray," he responds definitively.
I am blown away. We talked about solutions, but it was the activity of prayer that altered the energy for him.
Prayer is powerful. Never forget the important role of prayer in your life and in the lives of others. By reaffirming our connection with the Divine, we set our fears, doubts, and issues aside as well as place our faith and trust in God's hands. As is well.
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