I was folding laundry today (shocking, I know...especially since it's not even 10), and I asked Little Red to help me sort the bibs and the kid washcloths out from the kitchen towels and other towels. She did such a good job. After she finished, she asked if she could try. I wasn't quite sure what she wanted to try, nor if it would be a great experience.
I got down on the floor and gave held up the small washcloth and showed her how to fold a simple square in half then in half again. She was so excited to try it! She tried my way and could not get it. I do it up in the air and fairly quickly. I changed the way and she could do it excellently.
She sat there for probably 15 minutes laying out the little washcloths on her legs then folding them one way then another. It was super sweet. She is so determined to get it right and make them pretty, not just haphazard and however they end up.
Once she finished, she asked if she could do it all over again. By all means, Little Red! Practice away!
It's kind of a picture of us and God, isn't it? He is doing something and he gives us the opportunity to help. We don't do it very well his way, 'cause let's face it, we are not Him. Then he gives us simpler directions (or a different way altogether) and watches us with joy on his face. As we keep practicing the task that He gives us under his watchful, and correcting eye, we get better and better...until He introduces a newer, related, but harder task. Then we get to continue on in our sanctifying journey.
While it's not a perfect picture, I am grateful for my "good laundry-er" today.
XO,
J
Soli Deo Gloria!
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