A Wise Woman Builds Her Home: Motherhood Patience--Only One ...

Dear mothers, do you ever get caught up in your "to-do" list and endless responsibilities? Do you get upset with the children slow you down or children get in the way? Do you want to have a clean house at any cost?

Here is a wonderful reminder of seeing the importance treating our children with love and not letting the precious moments of childhood slip by us for the temporal:

Only One Childhood

I stopped to watch my little girl

Busy playing in her room.?

In one hand was a plastic phone

In the other a toy broom.

I listened as she was speaking

To her make-believe little friend

And I'll never forget the words she said

?Even though it was pretend.

She said, "Suzies in the corner

'Cause she's not been very good.?

She didn't listen to a word I said

Or do the things she should."

In the corner I saw her baby doll

All dressed in lace and pink

It was obvious she'd been put there

To sit alone and think.

My daughter continued her "conversation."

As I sat down on the floor

She said, "I'm all fed up, I just don't know

What to do with her anymore.

"She whines whenever I have to work

And want to play games, too;

And never lets me do the things

That I just have to do.

She tries to help me with the dishes

But her arms just cannot reach.?

And she doesn't know how to fold the towels

And I don't have time to teach.

"I have alot of work to do

And a big house to keep clean.

I don't have time to sit and play---

Don't you know what I mean?"

And that day I though a lot about

Making some changes in my life.

As I listened ot her innocent words

That cut me like a knife.

I hadn't been paying enough attention

To what I hold most dear

I'd been caught up in responsibilities

That increased throughout the year.

But now my attitude has changed.

Because in my heart, I realize

I've seen the world in a different light.

Through my little darling's eyes.

So, let the cobweb have the corners

And the dust bunnies rule the floor.

I'm not going to worry about

Trying so hard to keep up with them anymore.

I'm going to fill the house with memories

Of a child and her mother

For God grants us only ONE childhood

And we will never get another.?

by L. Ellis

?Are you encouraged here?

Source: http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2013/02/motherhood-patience-only-one-childhood.html

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