There is something that babies do that I think only parents can be ok with…well there may be many things, but one thing in particular. It has happened to me quite a few times recently, with the inspiration for this post coming as I was leaning in to steal a kiss from my little Maisie. This is spit-up.
For some reason her little tummy has not wanted to hang on to all that she has eaten and it has loved to come up while I am am burping her. Last night I had a feeling that one was coming so I put a burp cloth in front of her and…I was right. She spit up. But my arm was in front of her mouth…Two night ago Jen was burping her in bed and I had that feeling. So I said…Jen put a burp cloth in front of her. Moments after I said this it happened, but with such force that it leaped over the cloth onto…ding, ding, ding…ME. The aforementioned inspiration for this post came when I was leaning in for a kiss. Guess what I got? That’s right. Spit up on the mouth.
I am prone to ’spitting up’ myself, but for some reason this didn’t even phase me. I laughed…after wiping it off of course. I was able to take this because Maisie is my daughter. It didn’t make me mad. It didn’t make me love her less. It did make me wish that it didn’t happen. It does make me wonder what’s up with all of her spit up. But even getting it on/in my mouth doesn’t change my love for her in the slightest bit.
I started thinking about this in terms of me being a child of God’s. I know that I have spit up on Him too many times to count. God can handle the messiness of our lives. Even when we try to hide it from Him it seems as though he seeks out our mess to help clean it. It is as if God wants us to take Him our messes so that we can deal with them together. Reminds me of the book of Psalms in the Bible. I think that there is much freedom to be found with returning to childlikeness in our relationships with God. Where there is an uncontrollable response to get what’s making us upset out and into God’s hands to help us deal with life. He can do it. God can handle life.
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