“Come pick up these things out of the floor, please,” I might holler from one room to wherever the Offending Daughter might be.
“Would you hurry up, please, and don’t make me have to tell you again,” I had hollered at them more than once.
But, on this day, I was fuming. I was mad! I was furious!
It was a Saturday and I had tried to get our home cleaned up while their dad was at work. The girls had been in their rooms and I had assumed they were cleaning them up like I had asked. I discovered , when opening the door to each of their rooms, Younger Daughter was setting in the middle of the floor with Barbie things strewn about; bed unmade and clothes lying in the floor everywhere. Older Daughter was lolling about on her unmade bed; tape player playing, looking at the latest teen magazine. Her closet door was open and things had fallen out everywhere. So, I did what any loving mother would do. I marched them into the living room and told them to sit. And, sit they did while I ranted and raved and even stomped my foot. They were taken aback. Their mother had never acted like this before. What was wrong with her? And, all the while they were probably wishing their dad would walk in from work and rescue them.
That has been forty five years ago and yet if you ask either daughter if they remember the day their mother lost it, they will both nod in the affirmative and roll their eyes. They may not remember a lot of times they have been disciplined but they do remember that one.
I am not proud of the way I acted that day and I don't remember if I ever apologized to them. I know God was not pleased just as well as I know that Satan was laughing at my weakness.
I am so glad that my Heavenly Father doesn’t yell at me every time I fail to do what He asks me to. Oh, He is disappointed in me. And I have sinned against Him when I fail to obey His will. However, He is always willing to forgive me.
“If you stay calm, you are wise, but if you have a hot temper, you only show how stupid you are.” Proverbs 14:29 GNT
It was a Saturday and I had tried to get our home cleaned up while their dad was at work. The girls had been in their rooms and I had assumed they were cleaning them up like I had asked. I discovered , when opening the door to each of their rooms, Younger Daughter was setting in the middle of the floor with Barbie things strewn about; bed unmade and clothes lying in the floor everywhere. Older Daughter was lolling about on her unmade bed; tape player playing, looking at the latest teen magazine. Her closet door was open and things had fallen out everywhere. So, I did what any loving mother would do. I marched them into the living room and told them to sit. And, sit they did while I ranted and raved and even stomped my foot. They were taken aback. Their mother had never acted like this before. What was wrong with her? And, all the while they were probably wishing their dad would walk in from work and rescue them.
That has been forty five years ago and yet if you ask either daughter if they remember the day their mother lost it, they will both nod in the affirmative and roll their eyes. They may not remember a lot of times they have been disciplined but they do remember that one.
I am not proud of the way I acted that day and I don't remember if I ever apologized to them. I know God was not pleased just as well as I know that Satan was laughing at my weakness.
I am so glad that my Heavenly Father doesn’t yell at me every time I fail to do what He asks me to. Oh, He is disappointed in me. And I have sinned against Him when I fail to obey His will. However, He is always willing to forgive me.
“If you stay calm, you are wise, but if you have a hot temper, you only show how stupid you are.” Proverbs 14:29 GNT
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