Brought To Repentance By My Son's Prayer

Any parent knows that, while children are a blessing, they can also drive you up the walls and frustrate you to a capacity like nothing else. That's how it is, but it is never an excuse for sinful behaviour.

Enter last night and we see Faith (1) refusing bluntly to go to sleep. 40mins after taking her up to her cot i brought her back down, grabbed her buggy so as to rock her asleep in that and kicked a toy out of my way in bad temper (i think there may have been a shout involved).

Over on the chair Jacob (4) began to speak

 "Lord Jesus please stop dad from being angry and scary . . ."

Broken from my silly rampage i snuggled Faith on my knee, cuddled Jake & thanked him, and asked their forgiveness before praying in repentance. Hopefully its a lesson learned.