Little Girls Can Be Stubborn Too

       Sorry that I'm just now posting another entery it has been about a week again since I last wrote. A lot has been going on this past week in every way. I've had a lot on my mind that I've wanted to write but yet I have to go here and there and everywhere this week for different things. It has been busy at work too being short staffed for a few days and then having some children leave some knowing and some not knowing.
        My "sweet" little girl did leave yesterday and I was strong during the good byes but that strength came from God for sure because she said, "I will miss you" and started to cry. I said, "me too. Now, let's go" because I knew if I kept letting her hug me it would have been bad for everyone espically the two of us. I was about to cry I'll be honest. The past week though oddly enough before she left I got to see that she is a lot like me like my twin but at a young age. I'm stubborn for those of who you know me or can be in certain times and moments and she can be too. She will not talk about what was bothering her to me but to other people she would. She wanted things her way a lot this week and I wanted this my way like she would want to go somewhere and I wanted her to stay where she was.
        There are a few things that I found out about her that is a lot like me with her emations like how she handles them. She handles them the same way I handle mine even to this day I will admit. If I'm alone, I will cry my eyes out but if I'm around friends I will not. I make myself be strong and wait until I get by myself. When I get upset, I also clean my apartment or cook. She helped me fold clothes and stack the chairs one night after she got done throwing a fit to calm down. I called her, "Little Miss Tiffney" because we are that much alike but yet I have a perfect life compare to her. I have no right to throw my fits or cry or get mad but she does. I could tell one night this week that she was trying to keep from crying and I told her "It's okay to cry if you are sad or upset. I still do when friends treat me meanly or when I miss someone that I love." She replied back, "You do?" and I said "yeah".
         One night we talked about the Bible after we got done reading it. I told her to keep the Bible I gave her with her always and ask someone to read it to her. She said, "I will keep it in my dresser drawer because that is where it belongs." That same night we read like 4 stories from the Bible. They were "Jesus Blesses the Children", "Jonah and the Big Fish", "The Firey Furnace", and "A New Home". She was very interested in a picture of a river that had to red and it was in the middle of the story about how God turned the water to blood because the king wouldn't let his people go but she didn't want to read the whole story. She asked me, "How did He do that?" and I repiled, "I don't know sometimes God just do things that none of us can understand." She said, "He had a magic ward."
          It was funny because we read "Jonah" after "The Firey Furnace" and she commented, "He is going to send those people in the fire." I was thinking, "Only if you really knew, girly." Then we had a talk about the Firey Furnace and how God sent an angel so the 3 guys wouldn't get burned. We compared the pictures because there were only 3 guys on one page and then 4 on the other page. I asked her, "Why do you think there are 4 on this page?" She said, "One is an angel." She gave me a sticker of the cross and baby Jesus from who knows where two days in a row.
         One thing this big stubborn girl has learned is to pay attention to how children really do react to situations. See what helps them calm down and then do it whether people like it or not. I still need to learn how to talk to them and how to get things that are bothering them out in words too not just actions around me. I don't know why God gave me clarity in this little girl to see she can be stubborn and will do things so she doesn't have to talk about it. She has to keep busy just like me right at the end of when she was leaving. I hope and pray that I have planted some seed in her and that God will grow it because it is all in His Hands now. I can't do anymore things but prayer for her and you know I will. I could see her be a speaker on what she has been through to help others or a missionary type just like me.
           On to my next child or children that I need to win for God! :)