My family said they wanted to make a blog where we could share our ponderizing experiences, since no one was posting on it except me, I decided to start sharing my experiences on my own blog...
This week I have been ponderizing the story of the good samaritan. It is in Luke 10:30-37. I also looked up an ensign article from some years back that explains all the symbolism in that story. Wow, is there a lot of symbolism in that story!! And it's all very beautiful! It's like the whole story of man in just 7 verses of scripture.
I had an interesting experience with Caleb this week. He struggles with school and specifically with reading. Yesterday his book was a bit of step up from what he normally does. He is ready to move on to the next level of reading. When we were about half way through the book he turned the page and there were a lot more words on that page then he has ever read on any one page. It kind of blew his mind and over whelmed him so much that he couldn't really see how he would be able to accomplish reading that whole page. When Caleb gets overwhelmed it looks a lot like a 2 year old fit. That is something we are working on, but through the course of trying to get him to see that he could read that page, there were no new things on there for him, they were all things that he would be able to figure out.
At one point he said "The only way to get me to stop crying is to do x, y, and z" at that moment I had a big realization. I said "Caleb, my goal is not to get you to stop crying" and when I said that I realized what my goal as a mother should be. I continued "My goal is to teach you that you can do this hard thing and help you learn to over come things that seem like they are too big and too hard. My goal is to help you see that even though there is something before you that seems insurmountable, you can break it down into pieces and when you do that you will be able to accomplish this big thing one tiny piece at a time." I continued to try and build up his confidence for awhile and he stopped the fit and started to read.
Things like this are not the norm, but they are becoming more and more common as I keep the scriptures constantly presently in my mind, and focus on the Savior more every day.
Keep ponderizing!!
