The binky habit...How do you break it? We've tried numerous times. Maybe this time it will stick.
M has been clinging to his binky in the most stubborn of ways. One of my favorite issues with the binky I wrote about here. I can't believe that was over a year ago.
Anyways, back to the present. M has been wanting to hide his binky so that we can't find it. He didn't want to give it up. So last Sunday, the binky fairy came and took it away. He will be four years old in February. It has been quite the problem. I cave in every time he's cried for it. He has been binky free since then.
Sunday night was the roughest. He hasn't asked for it but a handful of times since. He's excited to collect his stickers to go to Chuck E. Cheese. I'm happy for him and a little sad to lose my "baby time." However, it is time for mommy to grow up, too. One of the things M said earlier last week was that he didn't want to grow up and be a big boy without a binky and that he wanted to stay a baby and use it.
That broke my heart.
I know it's time.
I know it's the right thing to do.
I know I should have done it sooner.
But I hung onto it. Then I got to thinking. I'm like that with my sins. They're comfortable. They're mine. I don't want to let them go. I don't want to change. Yet, my loving God gently encourages me to let them go. He wants me to trust in Him and Him alone. God wants to release me from my sins that so easily come to me to make me a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come). God wants to mold me in the image of Himself...and yet, I fight and struggle with the things that are good for me. I cling to things I no longer need in my life.
And so, as God molds and shapes me everyday, may I repent and turn my sins over to the one who took them away by His death on the cross. May He be glorified in my life!
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