Potty training isn't going so well in our house. The almost-three-year-old isn't interested, and there's not much we can do to change that. He'll get there one day. In the meantime, we're still changing diapers. That isn't that big of a deal, except we moved furniture around not too long ago to move his big boy bed into his room. The dresser we'd been using as his changing table got moved across the hall for his sister to use, and he has a small chest of drawers now instead. And it's not big enough for a chest of drawers. So, we change diapers on the floor now. His floor has a rug printed with roads and buildings for his toy cars to drive on. He loves it. This causes a problem, because when we lay him down on the rug, he automatically turns over like this. I don't know if you know this or not, but it's hard to change a diaper when the body is twisted around so that little arms can drive a car on the roads of the rug. He doesn't understand the importance of keeping his back on the ground, his legs in a better position. He just knows it's fun to drive the vehicles around.
And it takes my brain to that verse where Jesus talks about a man plowing. It's Luke 9:62. "Jesus said to him, 'No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'" He isn't really talking about plowing. He's using something they understand to teach a more important lesson. If you're supposed to be moving (or laying) one direction, but part of you is facing the other way, you're not going to get to where you want to be. Just like when my son keeps turning over to drive instead of staying still to let me snap his diaper in place, it takes longer and he doesn't get to go do what he really wants as quickly as he could. And as adults, when we start out one way, but turn our heads, letting ourselves be distracted by something else, we're not going to get to where we meant to as fast, either. Lately, my distractions are reading and Facebook. They can both be good things, but when I let them keep from getting to where I need to be, they're turning my head too much. What do you think? What things do you let distract you?
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