Today while complaining that my nine month old daughter bit my nipple, (I was ready to give up breastfeeding all together), the Lord began to deal with me. As I began to get ready to take my shower, I saw red lines shooting down my breasts, which all breastfeeding mommy’s know that this is a sure sign of a clogged milk duct. I am in a lot of pain, but realize that the brunt of my pain was not coming from the bite. The majority of the pain was coming from the clogged duct. There was no way that my daughter knows or understands that Mommy is hurt. She only knows that she is hungry and the milk is not flowing the way it usually does. Out of her own frustration and immature problem solving skills she bites down to try to release the milk! I can’t expect her to act in a way that exceeds her maturity level. She was not trying to offend or hurt me. She only could understand her own frustration. Now, it is my job to teach her not to bite, but I have to understand that she isn’t out to get Mommy by biting off my nipples. So many times we expect our children, family, and friends to understand us beyond their maturity level. Most of the time, they probably don’t even know that we are hurting or offended. If they do see that we are hurting, they might not be at a maturity level to understand why. Our response may cause them to be distant and not want to deal with us. We need to make it our business to know the people in our close circles and deal with them on their level. Remember, none of us has arrived at the perfection of Jesus. There is always someone more mature and shaking their heads at us!
Father I pray for all the mommy’s out there struggling with their children’s maturity levels. I pray for strategy of knowing how to talk to our children, family and friends in a way that will draw them closer to us and not push them away. Lord, deal with our hearts concerning areas where we need to come up higher. Help us make an impact on those around us so that we may point them to the love of Jesus and not to our own shortcomings. Forgive us for times we responded wrong and show us how to respond according to your word. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen!
1 Corinth. 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Father I pray for all the mommy’s out there struggling with their children’s maturity levels. I pray for strategy of knowing how to talk to our children, family and friends in a way that will draw them closer to us and not push them away. Lord, deal with our hearts concerning areas where we need to come up higher. Help us make an impact on those around us so that we may point them to the love of Jesus and not to our own shortcomings. Forgive us for times we responded wrong and show us how to respond according to your word. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen!
1 Corinth. 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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