“The trouble with life,” someone said, “is that it is so daily!” No sooner do we survive one day then another one is upon us.
The little people in our lives have something to teach us about that. They know about struggle.
Some of life’s greatest lessons come from those beneath our normal line of vision. We need to look down, watch them and learn how to grow up. If you don’t have a small child of your own, go borrow one.
Watch the baby on the floor, for example. See how it focuses all of its energy in crawling. But then it stops, looks bewildered and overwhelmed with the distance it must travel to get back to familiar arms, and decides simply to cry for help. Why struggle if you can cry?
If you pick it up quickly, the baby’s plan worked. But if you let it sit long enough to realize that no one is coming, the baby often stops crying and begins crawling again.
Notice how the baby has energy to cry or to crawl, but it seldom both at the same time. It must choose between one and the other.
We are all children of the Father, sitting in the middle of his big world’s carpet. He watches us with unfathomable love. He sees us fall and cry out for deliverance. And he knows that the world is saying to us, "Give up." But he whispers, "Try again."
He does not always rush to pick us up. He likes to see us sit up, look ahead, and crawl forward once more. And as we crawl more, we cry less.
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places,” someone said. God’s love calls us to go and grow, forward and upward.
No matter how often we fall, we do not fail as long as we get up again keep crawling.
Don’t give up.
Gary Williams - an IronMan
Scuola Biblica di FirenzeVia armando Spadini, 24Scandicci, IL Italy
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