little me

I chew my nails...it's a bad habit, I know. Leave me alone, there are worse ones. (I might have those too, but I'm not fessing up here) I try to quit every once in a while and get along for a couple of weeks while I'm thinking about it, then, without even thinking about it a couple are chewed off and it's over. I decided today that it is going to change.
I put my son to bed the last couple of nights after not seeing him for a week and it was so amazing to read him his stories and pray with him and tuck him into bed. A couple minutes after I laid down with him I heard this little clicking sound. I had seen him with his fingers in his mouth earlier in the day but didn't think anything of it. Now I know...he was copying me. It's amazing how you really want to see things change when you see them in a mirror. When that mirror has a soul and is going to begin showing even more in the years to come, it makes me want to change even more.
I already have the need to change because I'm trying to pattern my life after Jesus, but this makes a lot of things come into a more clear focus. That little man wants to be me. I better be one to be like.