Selah is home with a fever today.
Funny how feeling pitiful and helpless makes it easier for her to let me love her. Tough, know-it-all defenses are down, and we can snuggle and read and giggle together, the way mother and daughter should. No battles for control. No challenging of authority. I don't feel exhausted. She doesn't feel frustrated.
Why can't we do this every day?
And why does every Selah-Gretchen story teach me so much about the Gretchen-God story?
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2 comments:
Hmmm...another post by you is messin' with me again :) LOL
I'm glad you had a day of snuggles and giggles!
That really touched my heart, Gretchen.
Love hearing about you guys,
Jennifer - CHI
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