Downtime.

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Sometimes God reminds me not to over schedule my children. Little souls need unstructured time to explore, think, just be. I must gently handle these little people, be respectful of their person hood.

A life of prayer may well begin with a little child standing quietly in his mother's garden.

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  • http://a-mothersmusings.blogspot.com Sandi

    So true. I also long to live out in the country, where I don’t have to tell my boy not to dig holes or collect rocks because the yard is manicured and the rocks were bought @ Home Depot.