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We’ve got a little one in the house, and he needs his naps.
I need his naps.
So, more often than I’d like, I have to remind his siblings to be quiet when he’s sleeping.
In my mind, I have to remind them more often than I should.
I got frustrated with them recently (again), asking why I have to keep reminding them – he’s over eight months and still, multiple times while he’s napping, I have to say it.
Because he (I) need his naps.
They have such a hard time doing this one thing for him (me), yet they constantly want to do what they want and forget about keeping quiet.
I don’t need them whispering or just sitting, but he’ll be napping and they’re dragging each other around the house banging into things and yelling.
And it made me realize (likely not for the first time) how often God has to remind us to do this one thing (the greatest commandments), yet I keep getting distracted by what I want to do.
But my argument to God is that those commandments aren’t just “one thing (two things), because it affects EVERYTHING we do and think.
Yet at the same time, during those naps, that one thing of keeping quiet affects everything my children want to do.
Actually they need to think about it when he’s not sleeping as well, because if they only think about it when he’s napping, they’re not making a habit out of it and it’s harder to turn on and off that thought.
I guess in the same way, if we only think about God and His commandments when we are at church or praying (or when we think we need Him), we don’t develop good habits all the other hours of the day.
