Good Grief

For anyone who knows Brady Michael...this picture will not surprise you at all.  Yes...he is standing on our kitchen counter.  I put him up there so that when I took the picture, all could see how hilarious he looked.  As I remember, it was Easter Sunday one year ago.  We were all rushing around trying to make sure we were ready in time to get to church.  Brady wanted to get dressed, but we were all ignoring him.  Trying so hard to make everything perfect.  Apparently Brady got tired of waiting, so he decided to do it himself.  If I remember correctly, the "My do it Myself" phase started that very day and has yet to end. 

Everything is "My do it!"  It is so very frustrating to know that he doesn't want my help anymore.  He is the very child who could do nothing without me three years ago.  I did everything I could possibly think of and more for him.  Now, he wants no assistance in anything...even when clearly he needs my help.

God works like that in our lives as well.  When we are clearly a mess...head in the arm hole of life...God knows we need him.  It is sometimes obvious to everyone but us.  Like Brady, we don't always recognize the need for help.  We are perfectly happy...as was he...with the mess we have made.  But God and everyone else knows, you cannot go to church with no pants and your head in the arm hole.  It just doesn't work that way.  You have to have your life straightened out.  And that is why we ask Him for help.  We need to check the mirror sometimes to see the problems within ourselves.  And then we need to go to Him and beg him to help us get things back in order. 

Lord...be with those of us  who sometimes can't see the mess we've made.  Help all of us to straighten up and follow you.

Have a Blessed Day!

Amy