This note is written by Kim- I have a renewed sense of peace this morning, after reading a word from Isaiah and I was yet again reminded of something Maya said a few weeks back. Here is the story….about a week after Pete left I was folding laundry in our living room. Maya came over to me and asked if she could help me fold the laundry. I had a pile of socks yet to be matched up, so I asked her if she would like to find the matches and fold them. She was very excited!
I figured I needed to make the most of her excitement about helping with laundry. If you start them young they like to do it all through growing up years…right?! She was doing a great job and I was giving her words of encouragement, “You are doing very well with finding the matches and folding the socks together, Maya!” She very proudly looked up at me and said, “My daddy taught me how!”
I was speechless for a couple reasons….one, I have been folding the laundry, and secondly, I was immediately struck with how proud she was of her daddy. As I thought more about how she responded, I also could not help but wonder if I am that proud of my heavenly Father and the essential life truths that He teaches me, everyday. Matthew 18:3 says, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
I felt like I saw a glimpse of what it means to “become like little children”. To be filled with such admiration, love and devotion to the Father! To have such a sense of peace that our Father is alongside us in life! The passage I read in Isaiah this morning was this, “For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear: I will help you. Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you, declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” Is 41:13-14 (I added the bold)
I really have a sense of peace this morning in the truth that that my Redeemer, my God is helping me and taking hold of my right hand! I am proud to say that He is calming my anxiety about rushing the last weeks of deployment, and the little everyday tasks that build up around me! My Daddy is teaching me this!
~ Kim

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