$1.00 per lawn

My son came home from school yesterday and said, "Mom, I made some posters and I have to go hang them up."

"What are your posters? May I see them?"

"Oh, bud, a $1.00 per lawn is very cheap. I think it would be ok to charge $10. "

"No, mom, a boy in my class is charging $20 per lawn and that is way to expensive. I have to go hang these so that I can get a job and earn some money! I got to get a job."

"Well, I was going to wait until school was out but...."

"School is out, mom."

"Yeh, right, smarty pants, ...some friends of ours wanted to know if you wanted a job washing out his cattle truck. It would be a stinky job but they were wondering if you would want to do that once a week."

"No, I don't want to do that."

"How come?"

"Because I won't get nothing for doing it."

"No, I think they would pay you."

"How much?"

"I don't know."

"Call her."

"I can't she is not home yet."

"I want to know how much it will be. When I picked weeds last fall for them, they paid me $25. "

"There you go, I'm sure that they will pay you."

Later, we were going out the acreage these friends live; my son says for all to hear, "I am going to clean out the trailer once a week and they are going to pay me $25!"

Huh? "Where did you come up with $25?"

"You said it."

"I did not - You said they paid you that before for another job - I didn't say it was going to be $25."

I was thinking about the conversation this morning. I was chuckling about how my son had put words in my mouth that I did not even say! Then it struck me - How often do I do that with God? How often do I take His Word and take it out of context so that it will fit my purposes? How often do I take promises that He as made and say, "Lord you said this___________ in your Word, I'm waiting, Lord."

I'm sorry, Lord, for all the times I have assumed and taken things as I want them and not how You meant for them to be. I am going to try to "listen" more accurately.

Thanks for the word picture you sent me! I get it now.