The Silent Battle of our Soul
A few days ago, my three-year-old asked for some fruit. I willingly gave him one piece of fruit; however, he was not content with one piece. I denied him any additional fruit, and immediately a battle started. He was bitter and resentful, and threw a tantrum before me. He yelled at me that one piece of fruit wasn’t enough. He wanted more. What should have been a piece of fruit he received with joy and gratitude turned into something full of bitterness and resentment, and for a while afterward, he was angry at me, his father, for only giving him one piece of fruit instead of more. Any parent of a toddler has been in this situation before. Toddlers are wonderful, but they lack their parents’ foresight, and they often start a battle over things their parents can see are in their best interest. Last week Samuel had a few days where he was completely cognitive again. I could see that the fog had lifted from his mind, and we got to h...