meditatio at the water's edge

Yesterday morning it was raining... hard! I needed to get the kids to the daycare where they spend part of the day with their cousins.

Well, as I said, it was raining. I covered my nine month old son as I picked him up, and my daugheter of almost four years was just behind - we made a mad dash for the car.

As we are making the forty foot dash, unknowingly I dropped my wallet. As it hit the cement, it opened and my bankcard popped out too. My first inkling of it dropping were my daughters words... "Dad, you dropped something." As I turned, she stopped, picked up the wallet and bankcard, and she gladly handed it to me -- all this as we got really quite wet.

As I reflected on the incident throughout the day, I had a few more thoughts. Anna, at almost four, is really quite helpful. Sometimes she is also very selfish. Yet, I am not so sure she is am more selfish than most adults. In fact, I think she is less selfish than most of us.

I wonder if this comes from a sense of needing mom and dad, being part of a larger family? It seems to me that maybe her sense of belonging is often more important than her need for independence. Perhaps it's a more biblical sense of being part of family than I have; perhaps it's not unlike being part of God's family?

As I watch my kids grow, I continue to realize that Jesus was entirely serious about the "faith of a child." I doubt it was some kind of analogy for us; I am quite conviced that kids have a better sense of God and his story that we often do!

Christ is in our midst!
Randy