Seems like every other day there is another news story about something happening to some kids. Yesterday there was a report of the police finding an SUV submerged in a lake and inside was an adult & three kids. They think it was a father and his three kids. The father had taken them during a divorce and disappeared.
Man, hate these stories!
After I read these things, or have to deal with families where there is issues with parents and kids, I just have to leave the office and go hug my kids. Sometimes I just want to sit and hold them, and they are at the age where much of the time they still are very happy to sit and be held. More so if I read to them.
This gave me a couple of thoughts. First, the more I want to spend time with them, the more they experience me seeking them out and wanting their company, the more I imagine I will find them wanting my company and seeking me out as they get older. I can tell them I love them all I want, and that is important, but it doesn't communicate like time spent together, just cuddling.
That leads me to my second thought. My heavenly Father likes to spend time with me. He wants to hold me and talk to me daily. Do I, like a child, relish the quiet exercise of just sitting in His lap? Psalm 46:10 "Cease striving and know that I am God."
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