Here’s our flooded backyard! But our basement is dry. Very grateful! a lot of people around here are flooded!
As I read the devotional Jesus Calling early this morning, one particular sentence stood out to me: “I (God) designed you to need Me moment by moment.”
Hmm, I thought, that is the complete opposite of human parenting–or at least of my version of it. I am trying to get my children to be less dependent on me, to be more self-sufficient each year, to increase their problem-solving skills. I often tell them, “Before you call ‘Mo-om!’ immediately, ask yourself if you can do this on your own.”
But God wants me to be more aware of my dependence on Him, more aware of my lack of self-sufficiency and of my inability to control anything.
I jotted these thoughts in my journal, worked out, made sure all the kids were up and moving, fixed Patrick’s breakfast… and then learned that school was cancelled because of all the flooding in our area. My kids literally went off like fireworks. I think you could have heard them from the street.
Was I happy for them?
This bird seemed a little confused by all the water. So it perched on our back deck (and, yes, those are still Christmas lights. Honest, though, all the other Christmas stuff has been put away for ages.)
Ye-es.
But I must admit I had to readjust my idea of the day I thought I was going to have. Better get ready to hear “Mom!” all day long, I told myself.
And then I laughed! Because I remembered Jesus Calling and my lesson of the morning.
It was very nice of Him to give me a heads-up!
Jen Underwood 