Ryder is two weeks away from being a year old. Can you believe it? It just seems like… well you know how that goes.
Tonight he thought that it was fun to test me. We have wires that come out from the right side of our TV that connect the DVD player to the TV. He knows that he is not allowed to play with those wires. TRUST ME… he knows! Tonight, we would crawl over to the TV, pull himself up and hit the TV as usual. That is cool… that is fine… no big deal. We allow him to do that. It’s very entertaining for both him and Chele and I. But after we laugh at him for awhile and he gets comfortable up there, he begins to test us. He gently starts making his way over to the right side of the TV, along the way glaring back to see if we happen to notice him. But not the “look at me, I just did something cool like put the ball in the hole,” more of the mischievous, “nothing to see here” look. When he gets within reach, the testing begins. He starts off slow, just moving his little chubby fingers slightly that way every now and then. We say, “Ryder…NO!” He looks back as if to say, “No… about what? I wasn’t even doing anything.” He continues to hit the TV, then goes back… a little more, a little further. Then, all of a sudden, he thinks he is in the clear, he even looks back again to see if we are watching him, and at that moment he goes for it. Call him naive, call him innocent… he just straight DISOBEYED! He needs to learn that there is a reason that mama and dada don’t want him to touch those wires. I can’t tell you what happened to Ryder after that, I don’t want child services to come and take him away… JUST KIDDING… Time out is a beautiful thing.
How often do we make decisions thinking that we are in the clear, knowing all well that we are just trying to justify the situation?
How close do you tend to get to the “line” to see how far you can go before someone notices?
There is a reason that God has put boundaries in place. He knows what we need and how we need it. Stop trying to push the boundaries to the point of your comfort and convenience, and know that they exist for a reason. The things that we fill our lives with are the things that we fill our souls with.
Those who thirst and hunger after righteousness, they will be SATISFIED!
Live,
F
I can think of way too many times in life where I find it entertaining, I find it exciting to test the boundries. I have become way too comfortable seeing how close I can get to the line instead of seeing how far away from it I can get. We always talk about how we need to eliminate distractions in our life in order to become closer with God, in order to bring more realness into our relationship with our creator... Well when we are constantly testing the boundries and seeing how close to the line we can get, we are creating distractions in our lives. No good ever comes out of testing limits and seeing how far you can go without getting caught... It's just not worth it.
Good word!
We need to be INDISTRACTABLE... (inside joke to the rest of you).
Touching on the boundaries topic, it's real important to set them before-hand rather than waiting until you have to. If you wait, you are almost certain to fail and go beyond what you want them to be. Also never compromise. If you tell yourself “just this once” the next time you’ll want to do it again and again and again… One final piece-o-info that I suggest is that you tell someone about your boundaries. If they are your own personal boundaries they can make sure you own up to them because you can only go so far by yourself.
Max
Yah, that is a really important thing to do that many people overlook. Many people just go for "just this once" mentality and a lot of bad things come out of that. I think this was a very good topic to bring up, especially during summer when people have more time to do stupid things.