The cliche things we say are cliche for a reason. It’s not that we aren’t creative enough, or that we lack original thoughts…it’s just that things are most fully summed up with a certain statement that just happens to have been figured out by lots of people over many years.
They do grow up too fast. Way too fast for MY liking. And maybe that’s the point. Maybe them growing up “too fast” is a thing that has to happen or else we would ruin them with our overwhelming desire to control them. Maybe the speed at which they are born, grow large, and exit our houses is designed by God so that our children can survive our interactions with them.
Maybe they’re not growing up too fast.
Maybe they’re growing up just as quickly as they’ve been intended to. The perfect speed.
We can’t control the speed at which our children grow up, and yet I see so many parents on a daily basis trying to do just that. If you’re one of these parents, I have a small suggestion; stop doing that.
It doesn’t work. Just as most of our attempts to control things don’t really work. They almost always end up pushing things or people away that we are so desperately trying to cling to.
So here’s the question for the day:
