Already a Troublemaker
It's
hard to imagine that 4 day old Thomas had already been labeled a troublemaker,
but he shut down the entire hospital 5 times. The elevators came to a halt and
the doors exiting the massive building were locked down, all because he kept
kicking off his security monitor.
Due to the risk of theft of newborn's most hospitals put a device on the
infants to inform security if a baby is too close to an exit or if someone has
removed the reporting instrument. Apparently Tommy didn't like his and was
trying to pull a Houdini and escape from the hospital, with little respect for
others who were impacted by his behavior. :)
At first I didn't like hearing that he was a troublemaker, especially at such
an early age, however I realized that he is in good company. His namesake
grandfather was probably labeled something similar and maybe even his great
grandfather too.
In the Bible, we see lots of troublemakers, including:
- Abraham the liar
- Moses the murderer
- David the adulterer
- Jacob the deceiver
- Jonah the runaway
- Gideon the scared
- Rahab the harlot
- Peter the impulsive
This is just a handful of the troublemakers we read about in scripture, but the beautiful thing is that God still loved them and used them for His plans and purpose.
During the week following Tommy has had other labels attached to him. Terrific Tommy (since he is pretty wonderful), touchdown Tommy (when he sleeps holding his arms up in the air signaling a touchdown), Tooting Tommy (well I think you understand this one).
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