I like having my kids home. I think it’s good not to have time to wake up, don’t worry about the lunchbox, have less time, I think it’s too good.
I often see moms and dads celebrating the start of classes and the end of the holiday, I still think I could have spent more time at home with them, I think the holidays are going too fast, they could have stayed with me longer weeks. Now with this global crisis and school closure, I don’t deny my joy at home, I love it!
- The discipline to study and the creativity to play will have to triple.
- But we will also have three times more time for conversations.
- Laughter.
- Necessary exhortations.
- Things that bring us closer and make us grow.
I see this crisis that Covid-19 [i] has brought me as an opportunity, a forced mini vacation with the people I love most in this country, and I think it’s too pretty.
You may think I’m crazy, that I should go to school at home [ii] with them right away, that I take advantage of someone else’s misfortune, or even that I think I’m a cowardly woman who eats bread for laziness. ! I just like having my chicks under my protection. If this difficult situation brings me this, I gladly accept it!I rejoice and praise the Lord who continues to control the earth and heaven and who even has this virus under his control.
It seems like a simplistic thought, maybe it is, I like simplicity. The Bible is simple when it is complex, it is law and grace, it enlightens our thoughts and gives wisdom to someone simple like me.
I sympathize with parents who would like to enjoy this time at home with their children, but who cannot. I feel and pray that the Lord will help you, a hospitable heart to care for your little ones.
If you are in a situation of wonder, not knowing what to do these days with the children at home unexpectedly, ask the Lord to give you the joy of performing daily tasks with them. Show them a new recipe, or how to make mud. of water and flour, the outdoor walk around the block can bring you new perspectives on the neighborhood, collect leaves and stones for home analysis, read the Bible together, decorate verses, play board games, check the situation of missionaries in the world and write to them, talk, turn on a little TV, turn off more TV , make mud [iii], learn how to clean the mud that sticks to the carpet, use the creativity that God has given you and enjoy this moment without whispering.
When I say that I like to have them with me does not mean that it is always easy, it is difficult most of the time, in fact living is not easy, taking care of them is not easy, everything has a cost, wear and tear, but it is not cause for discouragement and complaints.
These lives that God has given us to heal are very precious and that He Himself helps us to take care of them without whispering, without calculating expenses, remembering that the price we paid for our own lives was very high, even any wear and tear we can feel is not comparable to what was already paid, what Christ did on the cross!
Then, dear fathers and mothers, take advantage of this time intentionally, ask God for wisdom to take advantage of this unusual situation, and rest knowing that God is our guard and does not sleep.
[i] Coronavirus is primarily a respiratory virus
[iii] Also known as spongy slime, it is a very soft clay, similar to a mud with different types of colors.