INNOCENCE

I wish I could freeze time.

Although our days can be filled with whining, temper tantrums (more by AA than by JP ... but that's a whole other blog post!), dirty diapers, and spilled milk (literally!), my heart is filled with such gratitude to be a mom. Each day my kids seem to teach me something. Tonight I am reminded of the pure innocence that children have. They know no real evils. JP and I were reading the story of David and Goliath; I tried to explain that Goliath was the "bad" guy. JP responded: "No, mamma, he's not a bad guy, he's happy." I reread the story a few times, trying to explain the good versus evil plot in a few different ways ... but no matter how I phrased things, JP just wouldn't believe me. To him, both David and Goliath were the "good" guys. As we went on to talk some more and read a few more stories, I realized that JP didn't want anyone to be a "bad" guy. In his little toddler mind, the world was all good. Oh how I wish I could think like this each day! If I could only look beyond the evils in the world and have faith like a child. Yes, tonight, I was the one who learned the lesson during storytime.

I wish I could freeze time.