There’s not too many places one can cry in private in this household . . . and the other day I was outside in tears (I wasn’t particularly wanting their attention at the moment)when my six year old asks Japheth, “Does Mama have to go to the bathroom?” (Ah, if only that was the extent of it . . .) You know how it is for them . . . they have to go soooo bad and at times don’t come in soon enough . . . I guess this is what they thought happened with Mama!
And today . . . my tears consisted of my heart’s cry “Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and ALWAYS keep all my commandments that it might be well with them and with their children forever!” The frustration of all the PRECEPTS and LINES and HERE A LITTLE and THERE A LITTLE’s that it takes to get something across . . . It would be much easier to take up dog training me thinks
I think too that there are times to let the children see that this “problem” brings you to your knees and how distressing it is,in that it makes one cry aloud . . . Maybe this doesn’t happen with you . . . but if you have one child multiply that by six, add a certain time of the month and a REALLY messy house and I assure you, that YOU will be in tears too. Trust me.
“As for me, I will call upon God,
And the Lord shall save me.
Evening and at morning and at noon
Will I pray and cry aloud,
And He shall hear my voice,
He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me
For there are many against me . . .
Cast your burden upon the Lord
And He will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved . . .
You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into your bottle;
Are they not in your book?
When I cry out to you . . .
- Taken from Psalm 55 & 56