Archive for March 6th, 2012

Beware How You Ask

It seems my son has inherited my tendency to take questions literally and answer them as asked (not necessary as intended).

Alpha: What can I do to help with dinner?
Wife: Do you want to set the plates?
Alpha: No, not really.
Alpha starts to run upstairs
Wife: Now why did you ask if you weren’t going to do it?
Alpha: Daddy told me to ask.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

James 4:3