Pictures

As a parent, I would say that having pictures taken of your kids can go one of two ways, Smoothly or roughly. Today my kids (Hannah and Isaac) had their pictures taken at daycare. Hannah (who is three) became a model. She was voguing and posing and eating up the film. Isaac (who is two) sat there with the biggest frown on his face and that pose was the one that he decided to stick with for all his pictures. Now, you do need to realize that Isaac is a boy and as such he may not feel like voguing for the camera (unless there is a football that he can play with, and then he is mister John Elway). I felt bad for him because he was obviously not happy about the whole experience.

Spiritually speaking, this happens to me a lot. I am not happy about the pictures of my life so I am going to sit there and just be upset and cranky. I think our heavenly Father feels bad for us when we go through those times in life when we are just unhappy (I think it's called compassion). And just like with Isaac and me, he is waiting to comfort us when the experience is over. Isaac was not happy and all I wanted to do was to comfort him, but I also knew that he needed to learn that through all bad situations that his Dad is going to be there. No matter what! I think that we as Christians need to see this same thing, that God is not going to take us out of every bad situation, but that his heart is wanting to grab us and tell us that it's going to be alright. God has not left us, but He is there waiting for us to reach out to Him for comfort. There is no greater feeling as a Dad then to grab hold of your child and let them know that it is going to be okay.