Over all, help us love...

That was Dan's prayer last night when asking God to help us know how to discipline Jack. That is my prayer, too, let us love him over all else.

We do love him!  Man, he is just so precious....so sweet and cuddly and joyful and happy! He just also doesn't seem to give a lick about any of our licks (or time outs or incentives). Any given direction has about a 50/50 shot of being obeyed, which means lots of enforcement with little change in obedience.

This must be how God feels about us....why just establishing the Ten Commandments and striking people dead for disobedience was not his final solution. The change comes from within as we are more and more convinced of His love and provision through Jesus.

Lord, help us to love all our boys with that kind of love.

Jack saw a logging truck