I recline with soft head nestled next to my cheek. This little one dozes on my chest and I am amazed. Wasn’t it just last week that darling daughter was the little one sleeping on my chest? How it seems like it was. Yet that was 21 years ago and now she is the one who has birthed a baby. She and dear son-in-love walk the path her father and I have for many years now.
They live the life of sleepless nights, diaper changes, and many feedings. Trying to figure out why he is crying and offer comfort. Dear son-in-love rises early and leaves for work while she settles in to the daily care of their little one. They continue the legacy passed on to them from generations before. Binding together to raise offspring to follow the Lord Jesus.
I gaze into his eyes, those pools of blue, and whisper, “God loves you so much and He made you just right.” The same words I have whispered to six little ones before. Little ones who are not little anymore. In my spirit I hear the words echo from the throne of God in heaven, “I love you so much and I made you just right.”
Those words comfort me when I feel like things are not just right. When sibling rivalry rises and screams to be heard or when physically I am worn out from the strife. The days where life seems to overwhelm and I can’t see how things are going to work out.
I am comforted because He sees and He knows how it all goes together. So I stop, I give space for God.
Father, when the cares of life weigh heavy teach me to continually give it all to you. When I fail Father, thank you that you love me, you forgive me, truly you made me just right. Help me give that same gift to my children. To know you, not just about you, and the fact that you made them just right. Jesus, thanks for being so amazingly good to me and this family you have given as a blessing.
Have you stopped and listened to God whisper in your ear lately, “I love you so much and I made you just right?” Perhaps you can hear his voice now speaking these words.
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Little one reaches one month old today. Here again my mind cannot wrap around how quickly the time has gone by.
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