We Jump at a Crisis

Did you see the story of the 2 1/2 year old falling down the well? In those 30 seconds that we all take our eyes off of our little ones, the terrible happened. The dad was working on something outside, the 2 1/2 year old follows a cat into the neighbors yard and falls though some old boards into a twenty feet deep well half filled with water. It gets worse.

The father hears the boy crying. Thank God for that annoyingly overstuffed jacket that kept the boy afloat in ten feet of water. In the process of clearing off the wood and cinder blocks that are covering the well, the dad drops a cinder block down which crashes on his poor boy's face. That would put anyone into despair!

Anyway he jumps in and climbs out with his son. At the hospital, the boy tells the doctor that his daddy is his hero.

When the crisis is on mostly all of us has what it takes to pull off even the extraordinary. What if we could see the crisis coming and avert it? I guess it is less heroic to be preventative. How often, though, are we living in those 30 seconds of not really paying attention to our children's activities, friends, passions, ambitions, etc...

If we had the same zeal for prevention that we have for heroics maybe we our stories would have less flare, but our lives would sure be more solid. In the mental element of relationships I mentioned studying our spouse and children, so that we know them. When we really know them, we can help them down the best path. Let's turn those 30 seconds of not paying attention to paying attention and learning about each other so we can stay on the right course- the course of blessing and protection and fruitfulness.

Bryan