Ask Your Heavenly Father
I learn so much from my children; patience, endurance, self-control, cartoons, science facts, the list could go on and on. But there is another stream of lessons that I enjoy even more. These lessons spring from the mirror of correspondence between my relationship with my children and my relationship with my heavenly Father. These lessons humble me almost daily. Let me share one simple lesson with you. Asher is three and everything is a race to him. “Race you to the door. Race you to the car. Race you to the table, ha-ha, I win!” Asher is teaching both me and our neighbors in our apartment building patience by his love of racing. You see, he is not yet a good loser or a good winner. So even if it is a small race, there may be a noisy melt-down if he loses to me or to one of his sisters. Our sixth floor hallway is often echoing with the screams of a losing racer because he is emotionally involved in ever...