Answer

These are but small circumstances and trivial things in themselves. But by these little things Satan manages a great design against your soul — to cast it down or embitter it. And surely this is not your business at this time. You have greater things than the words and actions of children to attend to: searching out God's end in your affliction, mortifying the corruption it was sent to rebuke, quieting your heart in the will of God. This is your work.