{"id":1199,"date":"2009-10-07T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2009-10-07T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:31:09","slug":"the-little-rocking-chairs-october-7-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/the-little-rocking-chairs-october-7-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Rocking Chairs, October 7 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The little rocking chairs<\/p><\/div>\n

Can you hear it?\u00a0 The squeaking that the little wooden rocking chair makes when\u00a0 a child is rocking back and forth in it.\u00a0 The scratches and worn wood from all the sitting, standing, dragging and abuse the chairs took from little dirty hands pulling them to where they could best climb up on them to reach something up high.\u00a0\u00a0 Can you feel it?\u00a0 The peaceful feeling of your little one snuggled up in your lap listening intently to every word of the story you read outloud.\u00a0 Can you remember?\u00a0 When you sat down in your rocking chair for the first time with that new born baby just a rocking away to soothe her cries.\u00a0 Can we go back?\u00a0 Each time I look at these little wooden rocking chairs that sit upon my front porch it is a gut wrenching reminder to me that only 2 of my 4 children can even sit in them.\u00a0 That they are growing older and I have to accept the growth.<\/p>\n

My children are precious to me as I know yours are to each of you.\u00a0 We spin so quickly in this universe that we often don’t even know we are ever still.\u00a0We were still once<\/em>.\u00a0 Looking into their cribs when our babies were sleeping.\u00a0We were still once<\/em>.\u00a0 Our arms extended as they toddled to us about to fall with those awkard steps when they just learned to walk.\u00a0\u00a0We were still once<\/em>.\u00a0 Witnessing them playing in the backyard with their siblings without fighting each other in perfect harmony.\u00a0 They are all still photographs in our minds, that we\u00a0 pray we never lose the negatives to.<\/p>\n

As we move they move.\u00a0 As we grow they grow.\u00a0 This is how it should be and will be.\u00a0 We grow and mature and love more than yesterday.\u00a0 They grow, mature and love more than yesterday.\u00a0 We cannot have it back we can remember fondly and retell the stories for all time.\u00a0 We cannot stop the clock but we must embrace the growth and come to the acceptance that we grow as well and we as parents can learn from it all.\u00a0 We can learn how to hold on to the memories, how to embrace the moment, savor it and let it be what it is and how to love with an intensity we never knew existed before we became parents.<\/p>\n

Today take that picture of the little rocking chairs and let it jog the photographs in your mind with your little ones.\u00a0 Cherish those memories.\u00a0 Reflect on who that child is today.\u00a0 Embrace the time you still have and love them like there will be no tomorrow with the depth of a parent.\u00a0 For that is how God loves us\u00a0rocking us gently back in forth snuggled up in His great\u00a0 embrace\u00a0in our own little rocking chairs.\u00a0 We love as we are loved<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you hear it?\u00a0 The squeaking that the little wooden rocking chair makes when\u00a0 a child is rocking back and forth in it.\u00a0 The scratches and worn wood from all the sitting, standing, dragging and abuse the chairs took from little dirty hands pulling them to where they could best climb up on them to reach something up high.\u00a0\u00a0 Can you feel it?\u00a0 The peaceful feeling of your little one snuggled up in your lap listening intently to every word of the story you read outloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[103,24,272,22,273,53,64,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}