Courage

He was a cute little boy with his baby soft brown hair and his big blue eyes that were intently focused on the task at hand. The fact that his little pink tongue peeked out at the left corner of his mouth made him even cuter. He had tiny little hands, still showing a hint of baby fat and dimples and they were busy at work, putting together bright yellow leggos. I wondered what it was that he was building and so I sat and watched him for a while.
2 leggos soon joined many others to build a wall. Soon, the wall was part of a building and that building soon had a tower almost as tall as the little boy. His blue eyes began to sparkle with delight at his progress and became filled with the anticipation of finishing and enjoying his hard work.
Suddenly, larger hands came and sent the tower crashing down. The boys bright blue eyes looked up in shock at the owner of the bigger hands, his older brother. The older brother had Autism, and didn't understand fully what he had done. To him, it was a tower and towers are built for knocking down.
Over and over again the tower was built and over and over again, it was knocked down.
At first the little pink tongue had disappeared and in it's place was a sad pout. The little blue eyes had tears...
soon however, it became a game and the tower was built together and they both would knock it down.

Have you ever felt like this little boy? Right now I'd say that I do. I feel like I carefully crafted together something beautiful and CRASH, someone knocked it down. Again and again, I keep trying and still it all comes crashing down.It's exhausting. It's heartbreaking. It's...annoying.
Still however, I can hear my Fathers words, " Well sister, did you learn anything?"

Well daddy, yes. I'm learning a lot. Courage, lots of courage...It takes courage to rebuild after every crash. Like that little boy, I'm going to find the reason to smile, make it a game and keep on building. Eventually I'm gonna get smart like that little boy too... next time, I'll just smile and let them clean it up while I go and find some cookies to eat.