Our Precious Theo....

We are fortunate enough to have a lovely girl(lady??? - what do you call someone in their late twenties?) called Grace look after the kids for four hours each morning the day I work. We feel blessed with Grace (and all the other babysitters in the past that God has provided for me to return to work one day a week). Normally, Charles comes home at lunchtime to look after the kids in the afternoon. Well, this week I worked from campus instead of going into the office since Charles is out of town so I was the one who interacted with Grace when coming home. Later that day I received this email from Grace which I thought was worth recording for memory-sake:

'The other thing was Charles usually asks me for good and bad points from the morning so a couple of good points from yesterday - Jack was very kind in stepping back to let Theo find some eggs and also they both were very thankful to Reesy for coming and helping. Jack was very quick to say Reesy should have the first egg and more than one for doing it for us!! They were also very lovely meeting Becky and Theo in particular seemed to enjoy chatting to her (and climbing on her, being careful of the baby bump!). Addie was a very happy and chatty girl yesterday, and particularly cuddly and climby too which was very sweet! There were no bad points…at least until Theo munched the extra chocolate.'

Grace and her husband 'Reesy' had arranged an easter egg hunt for the kids. It is nice to get such a glowing report on the kids, but what was priceless was when she was leaving I told Theo that he had had enough chocolate. I made it very clear that he would be disciplined if he ate another piece. Grace and I then walked into the kitchen to find Theo with said wrapper in hand and Theo's mouth dripping with chocolate. He just couldn't resist the temptation. He couldn't leave good enough alone. Don't we as adults often fall into this temptation????

The striking thing is that this is the same little boy that yesterday during nap time called out crying because he had 'accidentally ripped a page out of a book' that he was allowed to take to bed with him. The story gets most interesting when I reveal that the book was the Bible and the page he tore out was 'Adam and Eve getting discipline and sent out of the garden'. Any connection between these two stories???

Aren't we all like Theo? We all too often fall to temptation? And we all too often wish there weren't consequences for our bad decisions! But Thank God for sending Jesus who did what we cannot - conquer sin and death!