Leaning INTO Him

Tonight my husband was giving haircuts to two of our boys on the back deck.  The oldest went first and was continually leaning away trying to avoid the clippers.  My husband kept saying, "Buddy, stop leaning away from me."  But he kept leaning away anyway.
Then it was Clown's turn.  And do you know what?  HE LEANED INTO HIM.  He kept leaning his head closer and closer to his daddy.  He leaned TOWARD his daddy.  Do you hear that?  I know if you are a parent of a RAD kiddo you understand how huge that is.  He leaned INTO him.  Not away from him.

The child who has spent so much of his energy for so many years trying to get away from us...running AWAY from our love. That same child today during a haircut leaned TOWARD his daddy.
It's what we are all trying to get our RAD kiddos to do all day every day.  We struggle with our entire lives, every ounce of our beings to get our kids to learn to lean into us.
I know it was just a haircut but still...he physically leaned TOWARD his daddy instead of AWAY from him.  And that is a blessing we are seeing more and more of lately on our road to healing his little heart.  We are starting to see a bit more leaning TOWARD.
As my kids would say, "Hip, Hip, Hooray.  It's a Frog Croaking Day!"