I sent my 8 year old daughter in to her room this afternoon to finish cleaning it. After an hour of her delaying any sort of cleaning, I open the door to check her progress only to discover that she has painted her bed sheets with finger nail polish. I was absolutely livid! I told her how disappointed I was with her behavior and that she needed to throw away all of her nail polish and change the sheets on her bed. I fumed and fumed for the next 45 minutes while she took care of these tasks.
My nephew's birthday party was this evening and we had to run to Walmart and pick up a gift. As we were walking in I looked around a little bit looking for open doors to pray with people while we were in there. I quickly realized that my displeasure with my daughter was seriously distracting me from being able to focus on anything other than getting in and out of that store as quickly as possible. We then headed to my ex in law's where we spent the rest of the evening and my daughter mostly behaved like a model child.
I have to wonder if I hadn't been so cranky and crabby, if I had been able to get outside of my self and my emotions, would I have seen someone that needed to know that God loved them today? Did my attitude prevent me from seeing what was going on around me? Did it keep me from being the woman that God created me to be today? It's possible.
Thank God that there is always tomorrow and His mercy is new everyday.
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