Responsibility

Each month at church Haden has a virtue and a verse to memorize. We practice this every night before he goes to sleep. I have to say that since he has learned to read this process has gotten a lot easier. He just says, "Here Mom" and takes it from me and reads it. He seems to even memorize it faster this way.

His virtue for the month of May is Responsibility, and the verse is Luke 16:10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" It is so sweet to hear his little innocent voice repeat this every night. The last few nights we have been talking about what the verse actually means. This is good timing for us, because we have been adding new chores to his list of things to do to help around the house. We talked about how he takes care of his smaller bike will determine when he gets a bigger one. This seems to make sense to him.

Today at work the word responsibility kept coming through my mind. I work at a high school so all day long I hear from teenagers who take no responsibility for their actions. My favorite is, "This computer locked me out, and will not let me on!", not "I forgot my password and entered the wrong one too many times and now I locked myself out."

This got me to thinking about Luke 16:10, "trusted with little, then trusted with much". Maybe sometimes that I get frustrated with things I do not have or things I have not accomplished it is because God is waiting on me to be trusted with the little things. In my new position this year I felt like I should be doing "more important things". It bothered me to do the menial taks of resetting a password, or helping a student find a printer. I think that I should just be happy with the smaller things as God prepares me for the bigger things.