Thankful For The RUN.

My kids have been on spring break this past week, and as usual, they want to run, run, run... and run some more. Eating out. Walmart. The pharmacy. The movies. Getting this, and getting that. It's quite exhausting, if you ask me!

I found myself quite agitated the other night when Sydney wanted to go, go, go again... to the movies. I was tired... exhausted even, and had no desire to take her and her friends to the movies, and then have to turn around, later, and pick them up (I would be in my pajamas, for Heaven's sake!!).

Then it hit me... like an iron skillet on the back of the head:

A voice so small, yet so true...

"Don't fret these times when your children want you to RUN... It only lasts a moment. In two years she will be able to drive, and will no longer NEED, much less WANT, you to take her anywhere. Enjoy the small moments with Sydney, and do not, under any circumstances, become agitated when your precious child wants you to take her somewhere! It's in those small moments that big things can happen. Conversations can be had. Prayers prayed. Revelations made. Friendship encouraged. Lasting moments that she will one day tell her own children."

WOW!!

Such a small thing, I thought. But it is in the small things that the Lord is made BIG. It's in the small things that the grandness of who HE is is made visible. It's in the small things that HE shows us how little time we have here, and how very important it is to use all of these 'small moments' for HIS glory... to connect with our children. To let them know how very dear they are to us. To express our love for them. And to share these experiences with them. Man... GOD IS GOOD!!!

So, in this moment... I choose to not take the small moments for granted. I choose to savor them with my whole heart. I choose to even encourage them. And I pray that I have many, many more small moments to share with my children!!



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