simplicity

The part I love most about working with children is how simple everything is for them. Things are black and white, right or wrong and when it comes to faith and understanding who God is, they just get it. Life and baggage has yet to get in the way to make things confusing and complicated. They understand the beauty of life and they know how to find joy in the simplest ways.

My heart misses being at Redwood for so many reasons and spending a summer observing childlike faith first hand, over and over in the most incredible ways, is what makes my heart ache for a summer under the redwoods the most. I desire this kind of faith and simplicity. The kind where those simple truths are all that matter and the rest of life just falls around the steadfastness of them.

Today at church the sermon was about human's desire for love and acceptance. It was about how that true love and acceptance comes from knowing God and being His BELOVED. The truth of that is so simple and I have heard it preached on so many times, but there was something about today and where my heart is, that it finally just clicked. At this point in my life, my need and desire for love and acceptance can only be fulfilled by Him and when I can learn to align my dreams with the kingdom of God it is then that I can achieve a fulfilling life.

how simple is that? how easy of a place is that to be? there is no mess, no complication, no need for analyzing. There is so much beauty in this truth and so much power and so much freedom. There have been so many times in my life where I have sought for love and acceptance in other ways, in ways that have damaged my simple view of God's love, but today I was brought back to the heart of what it means to be a beloved child of Christ.

"The Lord your God is with you, He is might to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing"
Zephaniah 3:17