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After each meal as I take the twins down from their high chairs, I find lots of food that missed their mouths and is hidden down in their seats or thrown on the floor. To clean up, I brush out all the food onto the floor and grab the broom to sweep it up. It NEVERS FAILS; the twins rush in to eat the food out of the dirt pile… For a while there, each time I’d get frustrated and say to them “DON’T EAT FROM THE DIRT PILE,” thinking to myself why eat off the floor when I’ve nicely placed your meal before you on your high chair tray?

Then one day, as I was sweeping up the mess and saying my normal,“don’t eat from the dirt pile” comment, I heard the Lord say, “Yes, don’t eat from the dirt pile.” I quickly stopped to listen to see what Abba wanted to instruct and this is what I felt like the Lord was impressing upon my heart. As parents we tend to be so hard on ourselves; we compare ourselves and our children to others. We can at times be critical of our parenting skills, and let’s be honest—sometimes we can find ourselves in an emotional meltdown. In these weak moments, we oftentimes tend to listen to the whispers of the enemy and begin to entertain and accept those lies that are straight from the pits of hell instead of immediately casting them down. We begin to eat from the dirt pile.