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Maybe a New Brain for Christmas

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If you want to really confuse your young children, try talking to them about their brain.  I learned this lesson the other day when I was explaining to my three little ones why they needed to be careful about their baby brother’s head.  I told them they needed to be gentle because he had a soft spot on the top of his head where his skull couldn’t protect his brain.  His brain?  They had a thousand questions about what a brain is and who has one.  I thought I’d done a pretty good job explaining, but a few days later in the car there was a skirmish in the van between five year-old Josh and three year-old Danny.  Josh yelled from the backseat “OUCH!  Mommy, Danny pinched me!  Can we get him a new brain?  This one likes to be mean too much.”  Oh that Danny.  He can be a pretty rough character.  And there are days when I wish it was as simple as buying him a new brain that doesn’t struggle with the temptation to hit and pinch when he’s frustrated.  And even a new brain wouldn’t fix what ultimately is his heart problem.

But I can be a pretty rough character too.  I struggle with my own temptations to gossip or judge or shut people out who have hurt me.  I wish I could just get a fresh brain and a new heart instead of going through the difficult spiritual work of retraining this mind of mine to choose love and self-sacrifice.  But God has called me to put off that old mindset that’s so easy for me and take on the mindset of Christ.  That’s a spiritual discipline that Danny and I both just have to keep practicing.

 

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