On particularly exhausting days of mothering, I complain, "the children have been trying to kill themselves all day!" Jumping off ledges, playing barefoot where there might be snakes, climbing on furniture, you know what I'm talking about. Children find every single potential hazard.
Over the last couple weeks, there has been one tragedy after another that I've become aware of - children dying. Parents grieving.
Try as we may, as parents, we cannot protect our children from everything - choking on food, car accidents, furniture falling, seizures in the night, malaria...
God frequently reminds me that HE is sovereign. HE is bigger than everything. HE never falls asleep. I could be the most inattentive mother in the world or the most attentive mother in the world, yet HIS will be done. He holds each of my little ones in His hand and nothing can take Him by surprise.
Someday, I'll record my thoughts on why bad things happen even to little children. But for now, I will focus each day on being faithful to caring for these little ones but also releasing them to God. I pray over my children each night, that they would trust in Him, and that God would wake me and take me to them if they need me. Every day is a conscious effort to hand them to God - some days more than others!
Over the last couple weeks, there has been one tragedy after another that I've become aware of - children dying. Parents grieving.
Try as we may, as parents, we cannot protect our children from everything - choking on food, car accidents, furniture falling, seizures in the night, malaria...
God frequently reminds me that HE is sovereign. HE is bigger than everything. HE never falls asleep. I could be the most inattentive mother in the world or the most attentive mother in the world, yet HIS will be done. He holds each of my little ones in His hand and nothing can take Him by surprise.
Someday, I'll record my thoughts on why bad things happen even to little children. But for now, I will focus each day on being faithful to caring for these little ones but also releasing them to God. I pray over my children each night, that they would trust in Him, and that God would wake me and take me to them if they need me. Every day is a conscious effort to hand them to God - some days more than others!
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