Pleased

I haven't posted in soooo long!! I have so much to catch up on...Morgan's camp, Elliott and Tucker's father/son retreat in Texas, the beach and Boy Scout Camp. I don't know where to begin, so I will begin with a story from Bible School this past week. The truth culminated today.

The boys were at scout camp this past week. The girls went to Bible School each morning for three hours. Well, the first day Hannah came home saying this boy was mean. I was surprised because they are friends with him. He has been on our swim team for a while. He is a nice boy. I asked them to tell me what happened. She kept telling me he was in her face and she told him to just leave her alone. He also made fun of them in some other ways. Another boy that is their age and a good friend of ours walked by and told him to leave her alone. I was surprised about the problem. I told her to nicely ask him to leave her alone if he bothers her again. Each day she would tell me he wouldn't leave her alone. By the end of the week, she said he was being nice to her.

The mother of the little boy that defended her couldn't really get to the bottom of the story either. Well, I saw the Mom of the "mean" boy at the swim meet in our town yesterday. I wasn't planning on talking to her, but passed her in the hallway and spoke to her. She wasn't happy to hear he had been ugly to her. She went and talked to him.

Well, Hannah didn't give me the whole story. He had accidentally bumped her or stepped on her foot or something during the games. During snack time, he was trying to apologize to her for hurting her. He was doing what he should be doing. She refused to accept his apology. She told him to get away and leave her alone. She put her hand and arm up (like you are saying stop) and refused to hear him. She was wrong! After she acted this way, he lost his temper and said the ugly things. These kids are only 9 and 10. They are still learning. The part I am upset over is that Hannah didn't tell the whole truth to me. All week long they had issues. Well, now I know why. This child is nice. I should have followed my thinking earlier.

Well, my husband and I had a talk with her today. We explained that she broke our trust. We thought we could trust her and talked to the child's mother about the incident. We defended her and we didn't have the entire story. He was wrong also, but she provoked him. If she had forgiven him immediately, the week would have been much happier for everyone. We told her that we couldn't trust her completely anymore. If she is accused of acting a certain way now, we may believe the other person because they can be trusted. She had to write a letter to the boy asking forgiveness and explaining that she has lost the trust of her parents.

The good news is she wrote the letter quickly and well. We prepared it to mail and she went to play. The HAPPY part is that she came back in a few minutes later and said that she was sorry she didn't tell me earlier in the week. She said she felt like God was telling her to tell me and she didn't obey. She cried and we prayed and she asked God to forgive her. I believe it was truthful and from her heart. I told her I am proud that she apologized to me without being prompted. I am glad she did follow her heart with the promptings today.

I told the story to Haylee and she said now it all makes sense.

I am very pleased that God touched her heart and she obeyed today.