Living it Out...

I had an interesting experience with Riley today. She pushed me. She was somewhat playing around, but it got out of hand. She knows that she is not supposed to push. I reminded her and said “Remember when you disobey, Mommy has to give you a spanking”. She got a spanking and then I explained to her that as God’s children we are to love one another and not cause harm to one another. She said “I don’t want to love one another”. I had the opportunity to explain that our flesh does not want to love most of the time and we want to be selfish, but we can pray and ask God to change our hearts. I asked Riley if she would like to pray and she said “yes”. I think if she said “no” we would have prayed anyway. We prayed that God would change our hearts and we would see people the way he sees them and treat them in a loving way. I feel like before reading this book I would have just spanked her and said “you have to obey mommy!”. This turned out to be a great experience for Riley and me.