Encouragement to See the Bigger Picture

Original Entry: Not Misunderstanding Our Husband's Love.

Our little baby was in the high chair tonight doing a little motion dance with her head rapidly.  She was obviously enjoying her spaghetti I had ground up in the food grinder.  Our baby high chair is wooden and has a high back reaching to the bottom of her neck, and she can lean back on it if she wants to.  Her papa (my husband) saw a potential accident and warned her and asked her to stop.  The potential accident that my husband saw was that if she is too wild with her little happy high chair dance, she will bang the side of her head on the back.  Our girl didn’t understand that the warning was for her protection and she began to whimper and reach out her arms to me.  I leaned toward the high chair and hugged her and explained to her that her papa loves her.  He didn’t want her to hurt herself.  She resumed to the dance and actually did end up hurting herself a bit on the head.

As I observed the scenario, I realized that I am like our baby in some ways, as it relates to understanding.  Because I am much older, though, and able to understand more, not misunderstanding my husband’s love should come easy!  Sometimes my husband will say something to me to warn me because he loves me and is trying to protect me.  I may not see it that way at first, but indeed, he does quite often see the bigger picture.  

 My entry now:  I think if I look at my husband's encouragements and exhortations to take them seriously and with self-control, listen and obey, God will bless this.  Nice reminder as I am going through older blog entries.