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Faith lessons from a different child

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Some time (scarily it was nine years) ago I wrote a piece on here entitled "Touching a heart". Two years later I followed that up with a piece called "Further lessons from a child".
Both those pieces centered on lessons I had learned by observing my niece and I often find myself reflecting on the things I have (and haven't) learned as a result of those experiences.
Nowadays I have children of my own and just a few weeks back my son (who is two and a half) taught me something about faith.

We've all been there, you wake up in the middle of the night and your throat is a dry as sandpaper. The trouble for my son this time was that we hadn't left a drink next to his bed for him. So he did what toddlers do in the middle of the night and cried out for one of us to go in. My wife went and discovered the ongoing thirst issue. Actually the words my son used were "How about a nice cool drink mum?". Mum said she would bring one and left to go downstairs.

So what did my son do during the wait? He sat on his bed quietly waiting for his Mum to return. You see he had no doubt that she would come back or that she would have the water in her hand when she did. He trusted her, implicitly and, to him, the fact that she had said she would do something was enough. No more tears, no going to the top of the stairs, no watching the door, no worrying just patience and - when she returned - thanks. In short my son has faith in his mother - and rightfully so.

So let me ask you the question this triggered me to ask myself. How often do you wait patiently for God? How much do you trust that He will do what He has said? How much faith do you have in Him?

Always handy having kids around when you need a few lessons don' you think?

Cheers C.
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