when I was a child . . .

So I got up early this morning did some work and then headed over over to one of those coffee shop/bagleries. I enjoy grabbing a bagel, some diet pepsi and just spending some time thinking.

Well as I was drifting away in my thoughts, someone I knew was walking by so I greeted him. I could tell he was flustered, and in a passing way he mentioned how his day was not going well.

It was still early so I thought I would let him elaborate. So he spent the next few minutes describing how one of his children had basically spent the entire morning dragging his feet, procrastinating, and basically not wanting to get to school.

So the dad was hurrying all over the place and begging his son to just do what he asked, so they would we on time for school, which would allow the dad to be on time for work and so on . . .

The kid didn't listen and single handedly made everyone late.

What struck me as interesting as this man was telling me his story, was his animation. I could see how frustrated he was (and so could everyone else in the coffee shop/baglerie). He wasn't holding back. But it wasn't like he hated his kid for making him late. This morning he showed a different kind of emotion . . . one that I hadn't picked up on before.

It was a combination of love and frustration.

and for the simple purpose of this blog I will call it lovestration.

I have never witnesses this emotion before . . . I mean I am sure that I have been in the presence of if once or twice before, but I never cared.

But this morning as this dad was ranting in his love, I thought to myself . . .

"Self is this what God goes through, does God expereience lovestration ?"

The imagery of God as a father is nothing new . . . and recently I have seen more and more christian people that I know acting like little children . . . so when the story was being told I was viewing "us" in the child's role.

How true is it, that we act like little kids with God. We know what he wants, we understand what we can do to make his job easier, and there is no question we know that he loves us. But we get stuck on the fact that we "don't want to go to school" or that "we don't like the outfit we have on today" or that "the other kids were mean to me yesturday".

We let these silly things which center entirely around us STOP us from doing what our dad wants us to do, and what we know is right.

honestly this week I have become fed up with adults acting like little kids . . . and I know I do it sometimes too.

and in light of my conversation this morning, I am confident that God experiences lovestration . . . and I am so thankful that he does.

It makes him real, because sometimes I do act like a little kid.

The apostle Paul wrote:
"when I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me" (1 cor 13:11)

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So stop being a baby



any thoughts ?