God's Timing Is Perfect

This afternoon I sent my 15 year old, Fox, to his room. He had been quite disrespectful all day and I'd had enough. I was done. "Get out of my presence I am not going to deal with your mouth for one more second!" That's what I told him.

*sigh*

I knew it was wrong, I let anger take hold of me. I was fuming mad. I stood at the sink, washing dishes and thinking of the tongue lashing I was going to give him. Three times I stopped myself from marching up the stairs to his bedroom, storming through the door and telling him just what I thought of his recent behavior. All my Fruitful Thursday progress had momentarily disappeared.

In frustration, looking for distraction from my anger, I plopped down in front of the laptop, checked my email and then my twitter stream. That's when I saw this tweet from Kris.


Out of curiosity I followed the link to this post at Jolanthe's blog Homeschool Creations. It moved me. I'm supposed to be reading that book - I'm currently very behind but I will now be picking it back up. It was the right message at the right moment. I needed to read it. Thanks to reading that post and hearing the message, Fox and I had a very different conversation - no tongue lashing involved. I'm still mad and so is he, but we are being gentle and patient with one another.

God's timing is perfect.