The other night there was a sweet voice in my ear at 2 am – Mama, you’re the best Mom ever. Was this a dream? She isn’t who I typically hear or see at 2:00 am. Wearingly I looked around and didn’t see my husband. He’s sleeping in the other room Mama. A big grin appeared on my face. Not because my husband was gone, but because it was a perfect moment in time.
Someday, our daughter will rather spend time with friends, but for now we are who she approaches with giggles, tears, and screeches. Two days after the 2 am incident it was girl’s day. Me and my Mini Me decided to enjoy the last day of the ski season. A perfect day until the sweet 2 am voice took a wrong turn and flipped over a mogul. Again, a moment in time I won’t soon forget. Luckily my daughter left the incident without a bruise. However, again it was my name she screamed. A nice lady stopped to help, but Ryley as polite as she could said “I want my Mommy.”
When I think of my daughter and her sweet voice it reminds me of talking with God. Many times I am like a four year old at 2 am saying…”I want my God.” Luckily, God is approachable. During prayer time, he spends a lot of time sitting in a chair in my head. We are talking face to face. It is like any other conversation, but we are talking through the important stuff. We also talk through the quiet. On the ski slope, Ryley sat in my lap for what appeared to be twenty minutes before we attempted to get back to the regular slope and get down the hill. We sat without words. At the moment she needed me to be there and to hold her; which is exactly what happened. It didn’t matter others were staring or wishing us to get up. What mattered was being her peace in the storm.
This is what God does. He is approachable through the shouts and the whispers. The words aren’t as important to him as much as letting down our guards. He wants us to surrender. When we surrender, he must feel like a mother holding her child on a ski slope. As a mother, there is no better honor then your child wanting you, trusting you, and calling out your name.
God’s approachability shows time and time again in all of his bible stories such as turning water into wine, taking one loaf of bread and one fish and making it enough food to feed thousands, keeping the lions away from Daniel, not throwing the first stone, relaxing with Martha and Mary, cleaning his disciples feet, parting the waters, and telling Abraham him and his wife are having a child at 100 yrs. old. All stories where God listened, was there, and was not the master as much as the next door neighbor, the friend, the guest, and the parent figure.
Amazing when you think of who God is and who I am. In all that has been created and will be created, I am only a speck in time. God is time. It just helps to know he is the one whispering at us at 2 am telling us we are the best and we can get up from a fall. We just have to want him, trust him, and call out his name. He may tell us we made a wrong turn and he has another slope for us to ski, but he will help us ski down. He will hold us when we need to be held or let us talk into the wee hours of the night. Lucky, for us we have a God who loves to hear our sweet voice and to capture each moment in time.
