Why do we so thoughtlessly skim over verses like this one?
I've made some changes in my approach to "case work," so to say. (Deep breath) Miss Laura is a bit of an enabler. You might know this about me already, please know I'm just finding out....be kind. I don't know if it's just this job or what, but I have an enabling problem.
But, anyway, I'm a new woman, turned a page, a new leaf, a new chapter, etc.
I've decided that there are certain facets to being a parent that have to be there, period. If you can't, for example, get your child his/her medication and to appointments for his/her medication without a reminder, what business do I have in attempts to get you to address bigger mental and behavioral issues? Parenting 101 here, folks. Allow me to get out of the way, I won't be reminding you, or taking you....I will be working on tactful ways to respond when you call me in crisis because you haven't mastered Parenting 101. There is no sticker chart, no therapy that can touch the issue that you cannot advocate for your child in the simplest thing.
And maybe you feel like this is my soapbox for less than mediocre medicaid parents, but that's not realistic. I like the big picture analogy. The Lord has been enlightening me lately, helping me to get up the gumption to remove my head from my rear and become a functional person....don't get me wrong, I feel like I present pretty well considered my head has been in my rear for...well, that's not important.
Which brings me to...memorizing scripture. I know, weird huh? My life has not been short of messages of why and how and when and why and who should memorize scripture...not to mention the whole I don't think "memorize" is exactly the word God used to communicate his desire for us to know the Word thoroughly. But I feel like it is one of "those" things. God's expectations 101. If we can't handle studying, knowing, using, applying the word---well, I guess I'm glad I can tie my shoes. I'm sorry, but who are we kidding?
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