It’s going to hurt, but then it will make you better.
My five year old son got a splinter in his hand while playing in the backyard.
“We have to get that out,” I told him. “It might hurt a little, but then it will be all over and it will make you better. If we don’t take it out, it will never heal.”
Perfectly reasonable, right? Yet the five year old mind didn’t quite understand. There was screaming and crying. Oh, how there was screaming.
I got so frustrated as I was working with all my might to hold his hand still and take out the splinter. I could see the end of it right there and all I had to do was grab it with the tweasers, pull it out, and it would be over. But no matter how hard I tried to convince him, he continued to fight it.
- When we get hurt, it often takes an even more painful experience to remove the source of the hurt so that we can heal.
- Our minds sometimes can’t comprehend the idea that we have to go through that hurt in order to get better.
- I’m thankful that our Heavenly Father has perfect patience with us as we fight, struggle, cry and scream against His loving efforts to heal us.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Hey Tim-
Liz from Pasadena, Ca (from the option addicts blog). I have 3 boys (6, 4 & 2) so I know how that goes. You write very well and I agree with everything you’ve said.
Anyway, I didn’t know how else to write to you and I didn’t want to write on the option addict blog since this isn’t really an option related subject, not that we don’t stray here and there, but… I’m sure you posted your email address in one of the comments but I didn’t want to go through everything. Okay, the other day we were talking about keeping updated with live feeds. Did you know that Firefox has a sidebar where you can keep your live feeds? I just updated my browser and I came across this and I thought you might be interested. It’s called Feed Sidebar. Simple enough.
Anyway, like your blog.
liz
pasadena, ca
June 1st, 2007 at 6:02 am
Thanks, Liz. I always forget to check out all of the plugins available for firefox. I am giving this a try to see how it compares to feed-reading in IE7.
At first glance, I like how firefox lets you look at the actual page the comments are on, but I like how IE7 aggregates all of the comments from all pages into a single long list that you can quickly scroll through and even sort. Tough call, but nice to have both options.
Thanks again.