Now, more officially being a parent (for almost a whole whoppin 8 months now!!) and have entered this "hood" it all has had me thinking in a whole new light, mostly because I am with this lovely little girl for pretty close to 24-7 and there has been so much I have been able to learn from her. For today's little sharing I wanted to write a little on one area in particular that has me thinking all the time. To begin, I will share a little story about my girl.
My little girl, my little steam roller, is in the rolling phase now (thus the steam roller term). She isn't quit crawling yet, so her main mot of transportation is rolling, all over the place! It is fun to watch her figure things out and how she gets her way around, yet she still runs into road blocks that she hasn't quit got over yet. One area in particular that keeps her in a rut are walls and couches. She can roll and roll but once she hits a wall or the couch she gets totally stumped. Sometimes it will click for her to just start rolling back the opposite way, but other times she is just so stubborn. She will turn and smash up against that wall forever, and no matter how hard she persists that wall doesn't move out of her way and she just gets mad and upset, yet she will still persist. I don't understand what makes the difference in her realizing that she can just go the other way sometimes yet other times she still persists into the wall, but she does it and she does over and over.
Being a parent now I think a lot more about God and what he thinks of us, his little kiddos. Especially situations like I shared above. I am way far away from being all knowing like Him, but I know a lot and understand a lot more than my little girl does at this stage in her life. Like the story I shared above, I know that if she would just turn the other way she could find her toys and play and be happy again, or if she would push a little harder with her arms and legs she could go forward in a crawling motion and have even more access to things she wants. But even though this sets so logically with me, I think I do the same thing as my little girl but in bigger scales when it comes to persisting into walls. I am pretty sure there are things that I do that are like rolling into a wall, over and over again expecting that firm set standard or rule to change for me instead of me changing my stubborn ways. It reminds me of the scripture in Isaiah that reads:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." -Isaiah 55:8-9
God is a really smart cookie, if not the smartest cookie and He KNOWS what he is doing when he makes certain commandments or will establish certain things, yet there are times we still push against it, thinking we can change it. I have seen this more and more in our society today especially as it seems more and more are pulling away from God and everything that He is about. But the crazy truth is that it is only making us unhappy and frustrated when we decide to be like this. I am sure it is hard for God to watch us be like this, but in the end we really are just hurting ourselves, over and over again as long as we persist.
We can make the choice to stop going against it and go another way and "find our toys" or do what we are supposed to and we can be happy again. Do you ever let your stubbornness get in the way of your happiness? I do all the time!
Overall it reminds me of another scripture in Proverbs that reads:
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6
Even though it seems like we can push down that wall or that couch, or that we want our way and want to get passed it, God knows better, he knows what is best. If we trust Him, he can help us figure it out, he can help us find those best "toys" to play way, those best paths to take that will be the best for us and our individual needs and circumstances. He loves us so much and wants the best for us, but we have to do it in his terms just like our little ones have to do things in our terms. That's just how things are and the easier and quicker we let ourselves understand this, the happy we can be with our lives. But that's the key is letting ourselves trust God, every day, one day at a time and be willing to turn the other way even if we feel stubborn and don't want to.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoying my random parenting/life thoughts. Hope you have a lovely Saturday!
Until next time. . . .
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