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i was laying in bed with my son last night as i lay there i realized what a screwed up day i’d had it was a day characterized by self absorption, impatience, and harshness toward my children how does this happen? i went to work with a friend of mine, we cut down a tree for a lady. when i got home Deanna reminded me that i needed some new bicycle tires. i loaded up the boys and went to the bike store. as we drove, i scolded them several times for talking while i was trying to listen to the talking head on the radio. when i got home, i immediately threw myself into finishing the modifications i was making to my bike. i had tools and parts scattered around the garage… Micah wanted to stay out and watch me so i told him he could if he could leave my stuff alone. (things like tools and bike parts tend to sprout legs and walk around on their own when Micah is in the room) he didn’t do as i told him so i told him to leave he came back i repeated my instructions he didn’t heed them i told him to leave he came back in a few minutes this time i ordered him to get out no matter how harsh my orders, he’d repeat the process over and over until finally the bike was finished later, as i lay down with Caleb to pray i scolded him several times hotly because he wouldn’t settle down so we could finish this task and i could get back to reading it hurt his feelings and God reminded me how it felt when my dad got that way with me and then the enormity of my sin against my children swept over me after Deanna, they are the most precious things God has given me yet i consistently elevate bicycles and reading above them today i repent it is more important to love my children and involve them in my life than to finish a bike tonight, more important to hear the prayers of my sons than get back to my book forgive me Father for i have sinned help me to be like you help me to embrace a simplicity of life that elevates the position of my children to the place you’ve given me
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.