Giving grace to my wonderful babies

Not sure if anyone else out there gets exhausted with disciplining their little sweeties at times like I do. But, I wanted to share this really insightful passage that truly blessed me this week. It's from a book called "Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches." "God treats us with great kindness as we fail daily. He takes a long view of our sin knowing that every time we fail and repent, we grow in our walk with Him. It is easy for us to accept this, because our sins are, well ours. But our children's sin against us, annoy us and mess up our stuff. We want to hold it against them, complain about them and feel put upon by their sin. We have a much harder time accepting every failure from them is a wonderful opportunity for repentance and growth and not an opportunity for us to exact penance. It is no abstract thing the state of your heart is the state of your home. You cannot harbor resentment secretly toward your children and expect their hearts to be submissive and tender.". So the next time I catch myself saying " how many times have I told you...," instead of getting mad I'm going to prayerfully ask the Lord to help me love my babies the way he loves me, and gives me patience and grace no matter how many times I've messed up (like getting mad at my kids :)) I'm definitely going to add this book to my summer book list! You can check the book out here: http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Little-Years-Motherhood-Trenches/dp/1591280818