Here's where the story gets interesting........
Wednesday evening Granny picked Ramsay up from school , fed him dinner, and dropped him off at VBS. During a phone conversation with Granny after she dropped him off I learned that he had an issue at school that day. Let me back up a bit and just say that this kid LOVES to swing. He swings all the time when he's at school as they go to the park twice a day, weather permitting of course. He loves swinging so much that I made him a tree swing for our backyard so that he can swing anytime he wants to. He's obsessed with swinging and usually has baby with him as well which means baby gets to swing too. (Note the bungee cord wrapped around baby's neck in order to keep him on the swing.)
During their morning park time Ramsay of course wanted to swing, but there was a problem. There was a girl in the swing he wanted. Instead of being patient and waiting his turn he pushed her out of the swing. Like literally pushed her hard and she fell to the ground. He then hopped in the swing thinking he was just going to swing like nothing happened. Boy was he wrong! A teacher asked him to get off the swing because the girl had it first. When he didn't listen it then took two teachers to get him out of that swing as he gripped the chain hard and wasn't about to let go. They finally got him free, made him apologize to the little girl, put him in a time out, and banned him from swinging for the rest of the day. Now, I know my kid is not perfect by any means but behavior like this is really out of character for him. He was obviously frustrated but didn't chose a wise way to deal with it.
Later that night when he got home from VBS I asked him about his day, knowing what had happened at school (but he didn't know that I knew). He said he had a good day. I question him about that and he said he had a good day except for that 'one thing'. So, I asked him what that one thing was and he said that some girl was in HIS swing and he wanted to swing so he pushed her out. I asked him if that was a good choice and he said no, it wasn't, but he wanted to swing. I'm trying my best to raise a man in my house the best way I know how and I always tell him ladies first........that means opening doors for them, letting the girls go down the slide before him and yes, that also means letting girls swing on a swing before him. Patience my child, patience! We continued on with our conversation about good choices and bad choices and I told him that he needed to apologize to his teachers for his behavior first thing the next morning and he agreed that he would do so (and he did).
Just when I thought we had talked about the situation and got it taken care of, Ramsay then says "But mommy, God loves me anyways even with that bad choice." Oh boy.........it was as if he was justifying (in his sweet little head) that what he did was bad but God still loved him so it was okay. Well sweet child, you are correct in that God still loves you BUT God wants us all to make good choices.
Every day I continue to learn and grow in my relationship with God and some of the best lessons I have learned have come from that 5 year old of mine. He takes everything so literal and sometimes just doesn't understand that there's a deeper meaning. He teaches me new things every day just like I teach him new things every day. Together we are learning and living a life that focuses on God and his unconditional love for us. God's love IS incredible. God's love IS faithful. God's love IS invincible. God's love IS unconditional. God's love IS REAL!
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