2007

As Ty and I were driving back from a date night in downtown Houston, we pasted an ambulance traveling on the other side of the highway. The sirens and noise caught Ty’s attention and he assured me that it was an ambulance. He asked where it was going and I told him that someone had gotten hurt and when that happens the ambulance gets to drive really fast so that can get them and take them to the hospital where the doctor will make them better. He seemed satisfied with the answer but it sat uneasy with me, so I corrected myself and told him that God and the doctor make the sick person better. I explained that when we pray to God he will help us, and he helps sick people. He sat quiet and I thought the conversation was over until be said, “But God can’t hear me?” I was taken back my his statement and clarified to him that God has really good ears and it doesn’t matter where we are when we talk to him, he can hear us. After a moment passed he spoke again and said, “I can’t see God.” To explain to stretch and grasp of God to a two year old is no easy task so I told him that God lives in the clouds. (This reminds me of a funny story of the last time we were on a plane soaring through the clouds Ty said he was looking out his window trying to find Jesus). I realized we hadn’t talked much about God up until this point. We talk about Jesus, sing songs, and read bible stories but God was just someone we prayed to. In a vast effort to explain the trinity to him, I shared with him that God is Jesus father and they live up in the clouds together (the holy spirit will have to be at a latter time). After this he said, “So God is like my movie.” Thinking he was talking about Lion King (the part where Simba talks to his deceased father up in the clouds). Ty clarified to me that he wasn’t talking about Lion King. Then it dawned on me, it was a movie called Stanley by Max Lucado that Jeff’s parents had gotten Ty for Christmas.
In the cartoon Stanley is having a hard time fitting in at bug camp and he talks to God about it. Ty’s only seen this cartoon once and it was powerful to me that me remembered and then connected the two thoughts together. It was a sweet conversation as if he was really seeking some truth and clarity.

In the past 5 days I’ve been to many “church events;” a marriage enrichment class, a ladies bible study (for mothers), a parenting seminar, Sunday morning, and small group Sunday evening. All that to say the overall theme I’ve taken from my emersion is to be intentional. I realize it’s past New Years but I didn’t make any resolutions this year, so here is my one…to be INTENTIONAL in my spiritual life, my marriage, and my parenting. I beginning to think one of the greatest blessing of me being a stay at home mom is that I have no more excuses to put things off, especially my relationship with God. I want to be intentional in setting aside my time to make it a priority to pray and study in his word. It want to me intentional in the things I do for Jeff and the time I spent with Ty. Here’s to a new year 2007!