The rewards of patience

Sometimes reading with my son is painfully slow. He has his favorite books and we read them over and over again. As much as I relish that time with him, I can lose sight of the blessing of it all. I mean what could he see that he hasn't seen before?

The older he gets the slower he turns the pages of these little books. Watching him you would think that he is going to fall right into the pages - and that's when it happens. Those eagle eyes find the most minute detail on the page.


It would have never occurred to me that the Harper Collins Publisher logo looks like the flames in the fireplace of the great green room in "Goodnight Moon". But he points to it and says "there's another fire". I chuckle with amazement and concur with his observation. Then I am again thankful for the patience to see something click in his powerful little brain.