How Is This?

How is it that grandchildren are so amazing? What is it about those happy, smiling little faces that make you want to rope the moon and give it to them? Give them the world? My own children were amazing and so much fun. But this grandmothering thing is a completely different story. Before I became a grandmother the first time, so many others that walked that road before me said "Just wait. Just wait! You won't believe it!" And so it is. It isn't something that can be explained to anyone else. You have to experience it.

I like to think that God thinks of me the same way. That he delights in my every move, my every word, my every tear. He wants to give me the world, as long as I can handle it! He breathlessly listens to every word I say because He doesn't want to miss a word. He carefully watches every step to make sure I don't wander into places I don't belong.

However, my granddaughter can be very willful. Strong on opinion. Knows what she wants. Even as a three year old, she thinks she knows everything and she knows she is right!! So sometimes I let her "fall", so that she will learn on her own that yes, she does need to listen to Grandma. How much she reminds me of my own walk with Jesus. And just as I patiently pick her up after she learns, so Jesus picks me up too, and encourages me to continue.

I am so grateful to God for his great love for me. He continues to show me, day after day, the deep and intimate relationship He wants with me. And it makes me cry.