This past weekend was the ACF girl's sleepover! It was a wonderful night filled with fellowship, sweets, and giggling college girls. It's always nice to have a night to hang with other girls, with NO BOYS ALLOWED!
That night we had the privilege of having a speaker come in and talk with us about the masks we hide behind. Hers was beauty, and the need to be perfect or beautiful in society's eyes. She was a wonderful speaker, but unfortunately I forget her name :/
She told us a story she had heard at a conference a few years ago. A two year old came running up to her father and wanted to sit on his lap and tell him about her day. She climbed up, snuggled in, and began to talk. Quickly, she dozed off to sleep. The father looked down and savored the moment. He looked over her and fell a little more in love with his baby girl. He looked at her little toes. How adorable her toes were! Perfect in every way. This got the man thinking, this is how God looks at us. As we "climb on His lap" and talk to Him through prayer, He looks down on us like an adoring father.
I don't know about you, but as a child I loved to sit on my dad's lap. To have a story read to me or just watch my favorite TV show with my father. But eventually, something else would catch my eye and I'd climb down. Most often this was a shiny toy or something else new and interesting.
When we are sitting with our Heavenly Father, we can also be distracted and get up and walk away. The thing distracting us might not be a new toy, but perhaps perfection, beauty, straight A's, a boy (for us girls, its often a boy .... a very cute boy). The list goes on and on. But the important thing to remember is God welcomes us back with open arms and never-ending love. Eventually the attractiveness of the "toy" will fade and we realize there is no place as safe and as loving as sitting with your Father.
What's your toy?
