I was listening to my son's lullaby cd lastnight waiting for him to doze off and I started to doze off myself.. and listening to that music..in my mind I pictured my sister and I as children, and we were laying in our bunk beds listening to this toy we had. He was called "Grandpa Time" He told us stories and would sing us songs. We always fell asleep listening to him and absolutely no other noise of what was going on around us could stop us from hearing what he was saying. The sounds of the gangs outside.. the fighting.. the nights my dad was over drunk.. and the loudness from him, and just everything going on around us.. sounded like nothing in comparison to the sound of the voice coming from our "grandpa time". We always felt peace when He was talking or when his music was playing. It had the most relaxing soothing voice... and I can see how my son and other children are that way now with the noise of the world around them when they hear their favorite lullabies.. the peace they feel.
So this got me thinking.. God is our "grandpa time".. He speaks to us through all the commotion.. all the noise... but do we hear Him the way we heard our favorite things as children? Do we block out the sounds of the world and listen to His song or His message for us? Personally I struggle with it, a lot. I can be focused on God and if something goes on around me, my mind goes straight to that.. and I lose all focus. I would think as an adult it would be easier to focus on Him then it would having a mind of a child that is always seeing and hearing different things all the time. If it was so easy for us as children then what is going on now that we are letting this happen? I struggle so much with it.. but my prayer is that we all have the mind of a child in some things.. (faith, focus) but not other things (immaturity etc) and that we all make God our grandpa time or our lullaby or whatever else took us away from the world and to focus on what was right :)
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