Our yard is bursting with unripe veggies and fruit. It's almost impossible for Clara to walk by the grapes and not just try, just incase, to see if they are ready. Surely today is the day, she thinks to herself. There is nothing more sour than a sour grape! I try to remind her that they are in fact purple grapes. That doesn't seem to detract her - she's a brave soul.
A Little Lesson:
I love garden metaphors. Especially parenting ones. If we could just remember in our busy days that our kids are like green grapes. They don't always help the way they should, or be kind the way they should, or put things away the way they should or act the way they should but remember...they're not quite done yet! Ripening fruit takes time and so does ripening children. When we expect them to have this life figured out, simply because we've told them how it should be...it always ends up a sour experience!
No comments:
Post a Comment