I sit here tonight watching Bella playing & using her vivid imagination. Earlier tonight she was testing her limits with me & I find myself remembering that she's only 3. She's just learning her way in this crazy world. She is innocent to all of the ins and outs of social life. What I wouldn't give sometimes to be just like she is. No real cares in the world but playing, laughing, & loving everything. Seeing the world through her eyes gives me hope when sometimes my hope is dying.
This world we live in today is so ugly so much of the time. Between politics, natural disasters, & the evil that lurks around the corner; it's a wonder sometimes that we step outside our front doors. It's times like the Las Vegas shooting, the Hurricane hitting Aransas Pass & Houston, the wildfires in California, that make you want to hole up with your kids & shut away the world.
I find that on weekends when I don't have to go to work, I tend to stay away from the news channels & most of social media so I can just be with my family. To just pretend for a little while that all is perfect & innocent in this world. It also helps me remember that we need to pray. That we really need to bring God back into our lives more and more.
When I listen to the struggles Caitlin has with her college classes & trying to be an adult, when I listen to Gabby living her last year of High School, and when I watch Bella learning new tricks in gymnastics that I pray that somehow this world will get better for them. That someway we will learn not to be so divided & to start loving each other more.
We could all learn something from our toddlers. We could learn that it's ok to hug someone just because. That it's o.k. to smile & to be friends with anyone. To erase the lines that seem to separate us. There is no black, white, brown, yellow, Democrat, Republican, Independent, or anything to a toddler. They just see another friend to play with & to learn with. Maybe, just maybe we all need to learn that.
We are all on this planet for a reason. It is not our plan but the plan of someone much greater than all of us. His plan is not always clear to us but we need to open our hearts & our minds to Him. We need to look past all of the bull in this world and pray. We need to let God back into our homes, our schools, our workplace, & our hearts. Then we can be like those toddlers that love everyone.
We need to give more than we receive....
