Mood:  amorous

"Then he said, "I tell you with certainty, unless you change and become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 18:3

 God comes to us in mysterious ways.  Today at mass, He showed me His love for me through a little child.

Today during mass there was a little girl who sat with her mother a few pews down in front of me. Someone in her family was making their First Communion that mass and there was no room in the pew for her father.  Her father sat my pew next to me.  The girl kept pointing and grunting at her father and would every once in awhile come close to our pew.

My own dad sat in his wheelchair in the empty space in front of me, and I think that the little girl was afraid of the wheelchair or of my dad...(he's not a scary guy) but she wouldn't come close enough to join her father in the pew. 

One time she came up and reached her hand out to grasp her father's hand and he reached back.    This was all she needed to feel comfortable in the church and she spent the rest of the time wandering around.  The father kept chuckling to himself about the antics of his daughter which were quite amusing.  I could tell that he was beaming with love for his daughter.

Isn't God like that father???  He reaches out his hand to us to comfort and encourage us and he is ALWAYS there when we come wandering back up to see Him.  He probably is up in Heaven chuckling at some of our antics too.  AND He LOVES us!!!!  What more can we ask for???

Aren't we called to be like that child???  Isn't it encouraging to be able to reach for Our Father and know that He is there for us???  Doesn't He ask us to be like that little child?  To trust in His promises that he will be with us always.  That little girl had so much love for her father that she sought him out of the crowd.  Aren't we called to search for God above everything else that competes for our time?

Lord, help me to become more and more like a little child so that I can behold you in your glory in Heaven.  Amen