This morning I got them started at the table and moved to the couch to briefly switch hats and start folding the mountain of laundry. Benjamin got up from his chair, grabbed his pencil, paper and verses and pulled his chair by the couch. All in one impressive swoop! I was waiting to see what he was doing before I commented or told him to get back to work. He knelt on the floor and laid out his stuff on the seat of his chair, looked at me with an adorable grin, and resumed writing.
"Whatcha doing Benny?"
He grimmaced his lips and said, "Just wanna be close to you."
Needless to say I didn't send him back to the table. And I folded laundry with renewed joy!
Not only am I so grateful for such moments, to be able to be close to my children, to have the time, but I'm ever so grateful that God changed my heart to want to! It truly thrills me!
I know it must sound ridiculous to the unsaved world because I hear the shocking remarks all the time of "I could NEVER do that!" "you're crazy!". There is nothing special about me. It's all because of God and Him molding me, purging the old sinful self. He put that desire in me, and I am ever so grateful!
It just makes me want more of Jesus!
Romans 8:13 (ESV)
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
