There I sat on the floor with my youngest Caleb, stacking blocks. Handing them to him, "here Caleb, go big to small, stack them." He would take them out of my hand and as soon as they were two high, he would get his arm and "WAMM! like a wreaking crane they would come down. He laughed so hard he fell over.
As I tried to teach him fine motor skills, he was practicing his demolition skills. Yesterday we were finger painting. As Caleb walked over he dipped his finger and tasted it. "Not in your mouth" I said. He turned around and picked up Noahs captain America shield. As I was trying to teach him the arts, he wanted to practice his super hero skills.
That night I express my concern with my hubby on Calebs lack of interest on certain things. "Why does it bother you? he said. My answer was "because when Noah was that age, he was stacking them, and loved to paint." He replied with a "but he isn't Noah."
We teach our boys that they are marvelously and wonderfully made (psalm 139:14), that no two person is the same and we need to be set apart from the rest. Yet, I sometimes finding myself trying to make them, us.... me the same as everyone else. We have to stop trying to compare the two.
He is so right we are a people that compare ourselves. We compare kids, homes, jobs, money, everything and anything. This is dangerous, it leaves us selfish for more, ungrateful for what we have and expectations that can not be met.
Caleb is so unique is his personality it would be a disservice to God and us, for that matter trying to mold him into someone he is not! I have heard it said from my pastors children that he has taught them "Be who you is". May we find contentment in who we are!
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