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Here’s what I want to remember about today:

1. My six month old waking me up (with mommy’s help of course) wearing his “I love daddy” shirt.
2. Hot dogs for lunch.
3. An afternoon of alternately napping and wrestling with my five year old son.

Here’s what I want to remember always:

1. I have everything I need and even a lot of things I want.
2. The right thing is to be thankful and at peace.

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.

1. When we get hurt, it often takes an even more painful experience to remove the source of the hurt so that we can heal.
2. Our minds sometimes can’t comprehend the idea that we have to go through that hurt in order to get better.
3. 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.