like a healing salve.........

It was sitting in a car with a friend today that I verbally acknowledged something that I have been feeling. We were just having a break from work going for a drive and listening to a variety of musical sounds. We had listened to 'God Save the Queen' by the Sex Pistols and for some reason I was surprised at just how genuinely musical the Sex Pistols were and that the vocals were of a decent standard too. This isn't the thought that I wanted to discuss, but it does set the scene for the mind set I was in. I was pondering and thinking.

The real point is this.
I realised what a positive effect my children have on me. Now I know they can drive me to despair at times too. But they do just have this way of making things feel so much better. My work gets me down sometimes, I find it unfulfilling and dull. Also paying the bills and doing the hum-drum can be negative. But I can have a day like this where I feel tainted by the world, tainted by everything else. Then I go home and I see my beautiful children and hear my daughter tell me about her day or what the latest pink thing out there is. Or I just look in to the living room where my son is watching tv, but somehow he breaks the hypnotic trance for long enough to just turn and say hello and even sometimes just to say 'love you dad'. These simple things are just enough to heal the days wounds. They are enough for me to leave the negativity that was lingering on my person. Its just as the title of this blog states, my kids are like a healing salve, a much need tonic, a cure for the poison of the world to me. In fact as we had recently been on vacation it made me think that the time we had together as family felt like 'the real life', not this other stuff that inconveniently gets in the way. I hope and pray that I always tell and show them how much I appreciate them and view them as more precious than anything.