What Makes My Kids Cry Today

What made your kid cry today?

Mine?

I used the wrong knife…

to cut a kiwi…

and it wasn’t a circle knife.

That was the entire crime. 😬🔪🥝

He wasn’t mad that I cut the kiwi.

He was devastated because I didn’t use a circle knife — whatever that means.

In his mind, there was a right way, a right shape, a right knife…

and I got it all wrong.

Cue the heartbreak.

Cue the tears.

Cue me questioning everything I know about fruit and cutlery.

But later, as I stood in the kitchen replaying the scene, God whispered something simple and so kind:

“You do this too.”

How often do I grieve or get frustrated, not because something truly wrong happened…

but because it didn’t go the way I imagined?

I expected God to answer in a certain way.

I had a specific plan, a vision, a timeline —

and when things show up looking different?

I get flustered.

I doubt.

I spiral.

But His ways are not my ways.

His “knife” doesn’t always cut in circles.

And still — His way is always better.

Isaiah 55:8-9 says:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

Sometimes we want circular knives and predictable outcomes.

But God gives us what we need — not always what we expect.

And just like I didn’t get angry at my child for crying over a kiwi,

God doesn’t shame us when we wrestle with disappointment.

He just gently reminds us:

“I see the whole picture. Trust Me.”

So here’s to the imperfect moments — the fruit fails, the meltdowns, the “circle knife” cries —

May they point us back to a God who meets us with grace in it all.

💬 What’s the most ridiculous reason your kid (or you) cried lately? I’d love to hear it — let’s remind each other that this messy, holy work is full of sacred laughter too.

#FaithInTheMess #ParentingWithGrace #GodsWayNotMine