Kate has started to "play" in a little more organized fashion. She lines her little animals up over and over and then stops and looks at them. She knocks them all in and starts over again.
She also gets rocking in the water causing a wave motion and then furiously splashes in the waves until she gets a face-full of water that stops her short. It got me thinking tonight, as she played in the warm, sloshing water, that don't we all do that?
We line our little ducks up in a row. We plan this and we plan that. As life gets some serious crazy for us here lately, I am going to watch that I don't "line up my ducks" too much. I will stay in surrender over and over, day by day, minute by minute, lest I begin to try to take over in my own strength. Instead of making waves, I want to lie in surrender surrounded by the warm comforting Spirit ebbing and flowing, taking me along with Him, instead of splashing furiously to get to where I want to go and ending up choking on my own wave making. Yep, bathtime tonight was a metaphor for life. But to Kate, it was just another rub-a-dub-dub.
James 4:13-15 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
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That's so strange. I just had a very long conversation with a close friend about the fact that the more I try to get control of everything in my life the more things are getting out of control and it really was starting to drive me to the brink of despair. Seriously. So I am so glad I just read this. Thanks for that.
Beautiful!
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