A Child

You know those  "ahha" moments?  The ones where the light bulb comes on.  I had one yesterday and it's all thanks to my four-year old.  I was listening to music and journalling when my little monkey bounced in.  She opened my night stand drawer and grabbed "the journal".  I learned that if I wanted to journal without having to wake up at 5am before my children began to pull on me, I needed a little trick.  So, I set aside one of my journals for the girls. They draw/write/scribble in it to their little hearts' content.  They both have their own journals, but there's something special about mommy's.

As I wrote, Alexandrea sat down beside me on the floor and began to draw.  "This is a picture of you mom," she said with a smile.  Wanting a little more quiet time, I asked her where she was in the picture.  A few moments later she stood up holding the journal. "This is you and me mom! We're wearing our swimsuits!"  I looked at it and told her how much I liked it, and then it happened.  As I looked down to continue writing, the conversation began: "Mom, is it true that none stand beside Him?" It took me a second to realize she was referring to the song that was playing.  I could see her mind beginning to swim.  She was filtering through the thought that if Mom says He's always with us how can none stand beside Him. "It is true. None can stand beside Him because no one can compare to how great He is, but He reaches down and stands us up." I tried but these are the questions that I love to hear Joey respond to; I have a gift of making things a little more confusing. And then the questioning in her mind stopped and her response was so care free, "Besides, (she shrugged her shoulders) He stands beside us." And she danced off.  She was done, and I was left sitting there asking, "Is it really that simple?"

My "ahha" moment, YES...... it is that simple.  An Incredible God, All Powerful, All Knowing, Full of Righteousness and Glory, One of Whom I am completely unworthy, stepped off His Throne to stand beside us.  His LOVE for us is so great that He humbled himself to become a human so we would never have to be alone.  Does that make His Greatness any less?  Quite the contrary, would you not agree?  And when we truly get this don't you think we should walk with a little dance in our step?

She later danced in and drew God beside us ;)

People brought babies to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. When the disciples saw it, they shooed them off. Jesus called them back. “Let these children alone. Don’t get between them and me. These children are the kingdom’s pride and joy. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.”

Luke 18: 15-17 The Msg