BR 12: Behold, Not Just Look At Your Kids...

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Maybe you're at the dentist, maybe you're waiting for your daughter at dance and you just have a minute for a boost of the day, kind of a thought. That's what this is all about…

Today I am talking about beholding your children. Well, what does that mean? Is it a new technique?

No, it's actually from the scriptures. When in the scriptures they talk about behold your children or behold a particular view or a situation, and it got me thinking,

“What's the difference between beholdhold and look and see?...”

That's the $64,000,000 question. Do you know the answer that I still don't?

But I have pondered over that and I found a marvelous, wonderful talk by Rosemary Wixson on behold your little ones and she was talking about when we are with our children, do we really be hold them.

That means we take them in with our eyes, with our soul, with our whole being. Are we present when we are with them? Do we behold who they are? Not just did they get their tours down and do they have their homework?

So I ask you to ask yourself today when you are with your children, your spouse, with your coworker, are you beholding them?

Now that doesn't mean you're gazing into their eyes for five minutes and making them totally uncomfortable...

No, I'm talking about in moments during the day at least once with the ones you love. Being able to behold them in a conversation...

For me, what that meant was I needed to stop loading the dishwasher at the same time as my kids downloaded about their day when they walked in the door after school, I noticed that I was unloading and loading the dishwasher and I was going, oh, that's awesome.

Oh, that's wonderful. Engaging completely in their conversation as mothers do on a multitrack way, but was I really be holding them, looking into their eyes, really getting the download of their energy and how it really was and the things that they weren't saying and I'm still working on this.

I think mothers will always be working on this, but it is something to consider. I've tried this especially with my five year old and I noticed the difference.

I take in his beautiful brown eyes and I really stare into his eyeballs and I really nod and listen like he's the most important thing in the world at that moment because he is so today.

Consider when you interact with someone you love and even someone that you're learning to love, maybe just for once one more minute, hold them and see what happens. Alright, that's your thought for today and remember you got this with back to basics.

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