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<\/p>\nI tell Jacob, “Time to go on a car ride!”<\/p>\n
I open the garage door, get my things. He walks out. I go back in to get something else.<\/p>\n
Find him out on the front lawn just sitting.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Come on! Let’s go!”<\/p>\n
Shakes his head.<\/p>\n
“We need to go!”<\/p>\n
Nope.<\/p>\n
Sigh.\u00a0 I go pick him up amid his much protesting.
\nThat day I thought I had to be a\u00a0 Human Doing, instead of a Human Being.
\nI should have followed his example now that I look back at this picture.<\/p>\n
Next time. Sadly, there won’t ever be that exact<\/em><\/strong> moment again.\u00a0 I ignored that moment in time, and that moment will never come back.<\/p>\n Often I think that kids are sent to us to remind us to just BE. “And a little child shall lead them.”<\/em> – Isiah 11:6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tell Jacob, “Time to go on a car ride!” I open the garage door, get my things. He walks out. I go back in to get something else. Find him out on the front lawn just sitting. “Come on! Let’s go!” Shakes his head. “We need to go!” Nope. Sigh.\u00a0 I go pick him … Continue reading “And a little child shall lead them”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jacob","category-lareita_berky","tag-life-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBe quiet. Be still. Enjoy just being. Love our being.\u00a0 Love our fellow beings.
\nSit and feel nature and God’s love surround you.
\nSit and feel of your child’s love.<\/p>\n