Sometimes you’ve just gotta laugh.
Overheard in the car one day when Elijah was a little boy:
Mom: “That’s enough Elijah. You’re grounded from video games!”
Elijah: “Oh yeah? Well why don’t you gwound me fwom books instead”
Mom: “OK, then you’re grounded from books.”
Elijah, quietly: “Good. Cuz I don’t even yike ’em!”
It was hard to be upset with Elijah. He would always find a way to make us laugh, even when he got in trouble. But he loved pushing the limits, and sometimes he would break the rules. He had a strong will. Even when we told him he was grounded, he would make the most of it and keep moving on.
No one likes getting grounded. But ‘getting’ grounded can lead to ‘being’ grounded. That is, if we learn from our mistakes. “Everything in my life is like a constant chain of mistakes and I have practically imprinted lessons learned by each of them.” (Elijah, 2014)
Elijah had learned that our mistakes can make us stronger. More importantly, he learned that we are strongest when we surrender our will to God. Because in the end, that is the ultimate lesson. “I have become strong and have learned so much and all of the glory goes to God… because you should never glorify yourself over Him.” (Elijah 2014)
In the words of C.S. Lewis: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.”
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-Ken Buchanan
