A Good and Bad Issue

Today I realized something about Cystic Fibrosis that is a blessing and a curse. Luke looks totally normal.

I know that may sound odd that it would be a bad thing but here is the reason it is sorta irritating. People are nosy and they ask questions about things. Things like why my son would be wearing what looks like a cast. There are other things too, like being stared at when I am at a restaurant giving enzymes, or when I wipe down the shopping cart for 10 minutes to make sure that he gets no icky germs, and I even get them when I tell him "Good cough buddy, keep em coming". I feel like people judge some of the odd things we do, such as feeding him lots of chocolate and also loading his food with butter and salt. I have seen the looks that mothers have given me and I know what they are thinking, "That mother is KILLING her child"! What they don't realize is that I am helping him live longer.

That is why I feel it can be a curse. I feel I have to explain some of my parenting techniques and also why he is so small for a 17 month old. People just don't get it sometimes and it's only because they are uninformed.

However, all of this got me to thinking. How many times have I judged a mother because she is giving her baby a bottle and the child is old enough to find it himself. Or what about the time I judged a mother for allowing her child to eat off of other peoples plates. I have done these things myself now and I have a reason for both! I am not going to get into them now but I should have never judged people!

I encourage you to try and put yourself into others people shoes this week. When we see people we only see a still frame of their life. We have no clue what the circumstances of their life are. They may have a perfectly logical reason for what their child is doing.

So my challenge is this- He who has no sins, cast the first stone.

Put yourself in their shoes, you may see life differently.