As I watch and listen to my three girls play I am struck by how imaginative and energetic they are concerning the possibilities that they will have in life. Raegan, the 3 year old, whole heartedly believes that she is going to grow up to be a mermaid. She thinks on her 4th birthday, which is just weeks away, she will grow fins and find a flounder friend. We went to get haircuts this weekend and she wanted hers dyed RED! It has never occurred to her that it is impossible for a little girl, no matter how much she loves to swim, to turn into a real live mermaid. My older girls are getting too big to believe in turning into mermaids, which is kinda sad, but they still have big dreams and are not willing to settle for a normal boring life. I think that it is horrible that they know it is impossible to turn into a mermaid or a pixie or an animal, but what is worse is that they will probably eventually grow up like most of the world to believe that almost everything is impossible and out of reach and they will except less than God's crazy best for their selves.
My husband and I are trying to raise them knowing that they CAN do anything but they are MADE to do something, and discovering what that is will help them find and fulfill their God given purpose. The frustrating part is as much as I believe that I sometimes have a hard time discerning what it is in my own life. I feel like I know what I am supposed to be doing only to have that change or not work out. I want to believe that God is working the good in every situation, but the "grown up" in me is pessimistic and gets impatient and frustrated. If only I could believe that if God would get the glory from my being a mermaid He could and would make that happen, if I could believe that then I could believe that God can, will and is doing impossible things in my life! Maybe that is why the Bible tells us that we must be like little children, because when they hear the Bible say that with Christ nothing is impossible they really believe that and don't but limitations on what "nothing " and "impossible" mean.
I hear you. I used to believe that I was going to swim with the whales. I still have dreams about it... I love those dreams.
ReplyDeleteGod obviously called me to a greater purpose than whales though. I love His purpose, and that He cares enough to involve me in it. I just hate not being able to see what exactly He is trying to do with our lives. This anticipation is driving me nuts.