Faith Like a Little Child

I don't know about you, but when I hear things like "become like a little child to come unto Christ." I cringe.

From my experience with children they are stubborn, impatient, unrelenting, quick to anger, demanding, and unforgiving. I have 7 children. They only kind of angels I would describe them as are the angels of the appolcylse.

Now, that is not completely fair. There are times when they are sweet, cuddly and kind to others.

Today I wish to speak about my 14 year old with autism. He is bright and does the school work for his age group, but socially he much more like a 10 or 8 year old. He still plays with toys and will work for time to play video games.

However, like Nephi he is large of stature and at 6 foot 3, 200 pounds, most people would easily take him for a full fledge adult.

Now Galen, my 14 year old has a way for asking for things with complete faith. I realized that today when he brought me his quilt and showed me it's holes and asked that I fix it. I told him I would do it in a while when my hands weren't so full of babies. So he quietly watched and a few hours later brought the quilt back to me.

There was no question in him that I would do it for him. There was no question about whether I had any interest in sewing right now. He just trusted that I would and acted accordingly. So I went and got the needle, thread and patching material and fixed it. I choose a soft fuzzy material that I thought would enhance rather then detract from the quilt.

 I guess that being a parent makes me enough that our Heavenly Father that upon seeing that faith I was moved into acting and full filling it for him.

I have seen that faith in my children often enough, and seen how it compels us adults to fill their requests. I have seen it work with grandmas and grandpas and on me as a parent.

Now we need to remember that and act accordingly.

We officially took Galen off of special Ed this year. Which is logical, considering he wasn't using it, but scary knowing how far he had yet to go.

It is hard to know how much of his schoolwork he does on his own. Jenny is always there with him. On the standard tests he scores a year or do behind. But tests have never been an accurate measure of his understanding.

I want him/ need him to gain independence in his school work. At home he is s hard worker when he is given clear directions. Without clear directions he becomes a sweatshirted lump. So with schoolwork he needs to learn how to tease out the clear directions from the other information.(ain't that the truth in life?)

Now I need to figure out how to clearly convey these ideas to Jenny so she can help move it forward.

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What miracle do you have in mind for my son?

What miracle do you have in mind for my son?

My brilliant son, who can grasp advanced algebra problems, but not understand the consequences to his own actions?

What miracle do you have in mind for my son?

My sweetheart of a son, whose heart's to be as pure as gold, but whom can't seem to control his actions?

What miracle do you have in mind for my son?

You have caused the lame to walk, the blind to see and have cast out devils. You have even raised the dead and my autistic son screams in pain at the thought of going to school.

What miracle do you have for him? I await for the day when your hands will lay upon his head, and your arms will embrace him.

When will that day come?, that I can lead him to you and then see the angel inside him shine?