Making Sense Of All This

This week has been an interesting one! It's amazing when you look back on a week like this one and you realize all that you forgot, all that you wish you'd have done differently, and all that you did somehow manage to experience.

This week, I kept thinking back to C.S. Lewis' quote: "If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

Indeed, if I'd taken two extra minutes each day to put things in perspective this week, I would realize that we've been promised so much more than what we have. Let me elaborate...

The newest source of joy in my life is my 3 month-old son Brady. When I hold him, look into his eyes, talk to him and hear him talk back to me in "goos" and "gaas" I am overcome with gratitude, love and amazement over this beautiful little life that God has blessed me with. When I see Brady and play with him or just hold him and watch him sleep, it makes all my worries, all my frustrations and all my issues just melt away. If you're not a parent, you've never experienced anything like this feeling, I promise. However, God has put on my heart the thought of these "unblushing promises" that Lewis references this week and I must say it has really wrapped me around the axle. Even something so sacred and close to the fiber of my being as holding my baby boy just pales in comparison to what our Father has in store for us! The human mind cannot comprehend the depth of that kind of love!

What we can do is rest in it and declare it to our hearts. We are so loved by the Father, that not even the love of our own children is comparable. The Father chose us, He blessed us, and He has made these promises to us!

Friends if you read this, please don't make the same mistake that I have. Take a moment, reflect on what gives you pure joy, and then remember that so much more is offered us! It'll rock your world.