Become like little children

“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:3 ESV

Yesterday my husband, daughter and I were standing in the checkout lane at Lowes to buy plants for our yard. 

Our sweet girl was attracting the attention of those around us as usual as she was commenting on the assortment of garden fountains they had set up near the checkout line. 

The people in line behind us asked how old she was and when the man handed her a red flower from the plant in his basket, she looked at him, said "thank you" and proceeded to start singing "Jesus loves me" while standing in the checkout line. The people in line behind us lit up smiling; the lady said "Oh wow I remember that one", and the husband and wife started singing along with her. 

After that they began to ask us questions about where we attended church, meanwhile my daughter was interjecting comments like "I just love my bible class", "it's my favorite". We had a nice chat about God in the checkout line at Lowes and when we left the older gentleman hollered after us "God bless you preacher". 

All this reminded me about Jesus when he tells us to become like little children. So often we find it difficult to strike up conversations with others about God and faith because we don't want to make people uncomfortable, meanwhile a 3 yr old singing "Jesus loves me" from her heart in the middle of the checkout line at Lowes brought about wonderful conversation. 

I pray that I will have a pure heart like my daughter to lovingly and boldly share my faith with others. 

Enough

I am enough. 

I am a child of God. I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, a preachers wife, a speech pathologist. 

I am enough. 

These days with social media (I am just as addicted to it as everyone else) I feel bombarded with the sense that everyone has something they are great at, their "thing" thay everyone admires them for, leading them to have 10,000 followers on Instagram. Here I sit feeling like I am so busy every moment of every day, and wondering "what's my thing?", "what am I great at?", "what are people going to admire me for?"  With all that busy what and who exactly am I?

I get so caught up wanting to be like all of these people that I admire for their accomplishments that I often lose sight of the most important thing: I am a child of God and I AM ENOUGH just as I am. 

If I never learn to knit or sew, successfully grow our own fruits and vegetables, support my family by learning to refinish old furniture and make it into something amazing, or become the most amazing pinterest mom, God still loves me. 

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

- 1 Peter 2:9 

So often I allow myself to get caught up in seeking earthly approval that I forget about the one whose love and approval matters most. God has chosen us to be His family and that is enough. 

In Him...