Children / Life

One of my girlfriend's friend's status messages on Facebook today was "child injuries- fall/get hurt, lay/sit there for a second, maybe yell out a little, get up, assess the damage, resume playing. :)"

That made me start thinking of the similarities of a child getting hurt and an adult making a mistake.

A child gets hurt.  What kind of child he/she is determines how they respond.  Sometimes it may not really even hurt, but perhaps the child knows they can get extra attention by using the fall or whatever happened, so they will cry and cry about it to get attention.

Some adults use their mistakes this way too.  "My life is ruined! I'm helpless! Nobody else has it this hard!"  Now, that sounds harsh, perhaps, but just as I pity the child even if they weren't hurt that bad, so I pity the adult who made the mistake, and my concern would be with helping them. Not rather or not they're over reacting.

Or, the child may just get up and resume playing since they're not really hurt.  Often this is what we need to do when we make mistakes.  Just get up and try to move on without making the same mistake again.

Or, sometimes the child really is hurt badly, and they will cry and seek shelter and comfort in the arms of their mother or whoever constantly loves and takes care of them.  Finally, being comforted and feeling better, they will go back to playing, or perhaps just stay there and sleep/rest in their safe haven.

Sometimes we really do mess up bad.  But always when we do, we can find shelter and comfort in the One Who always loves us and takes care of us.

So, when we make a mistake and we fall or get hurt, we may lie there a while.  We may even need to cry out for help.  But it's important that we always "get up [move on], assess the damage [figure out what we did wrong and how to set it right and/or deal with the consequences], and resume playing [get back into doing whatever we're supposed to be doing]."


Perhaps kindof a lame post, but the short form would be just me seeing that status and thinking basically that last paragraph -- that we should handle a lot of things we face as adults a lot more like a child handles getting hurt.

New Beginnings

So, I'm thinking of starting up a blog again. But I'm not really sure if I will or not. I hope that I will, and that it will inspire people. That it will improve my abilities to communicate. That it will give people insight into who I am, and also who they are. But along with all of that, I also hope that it will not use too much of my time. And I'm not sure that I can really do all of the first things I mentioned and that last part. But anyway. Yay new beginnings!