Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Baby Speeches

My son just turned 2. Not only is he tossing out some spectacular tantrums, he's also showing some real intelligence and some cute behavior.

It is common nowadays for him to deliver long sentences & paragraphs worth of baby talk. They're veritable speeches! My wife and I just laugh with how funny and cute he is when he's doing this. Last night I belatedly tried to get some of this on video but he had paused, and then he slipped off the chair hitting both his chin and the back of his head and the video opportunity was gone.

If I manage to get one of those delightful speeches on video, I'll post it here.

The other thing my son is doing is that he decided on his own word for "yes." He says "hai" or "aye," always short and clipped, and emphatic and high-pitched. It's really funny. It's making communication with him so much easier, and he's less frustrated because he can help us figure out what he wants faster.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

A Very Curious Thing

The more aware I become of my own brokenness and tendency toward disobedience to God, the more I rely on him and turn to him and more desperately need him. And that's weird, if you think about it.

Because on the one hand, depending more fully on God could be described as good and growing in spirituality. And tending toward disobedience, especially with an increasing awareness of it, could be described as evil and lacking in spirituality. So which is it?

I'm inclined to think that I am noticing it more, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily increasing. It's that I am more aware of what has always been there. So whether there's a net change in corruption (and I sure hope there is in the lesser direction) there's definitely a net change in my trusting God.

And that's a good thing.