Baby Blue Eyes

The other night I was cuddling Kailey before bed and thinking. When I look into those big, blue eyes, inside that tiny girl is a sweet woman with gifts and talents. Someday that helpless baby will be helping others and taking care of herself and a family. Those tiny hands patting my face will cook and clean, write and draw, work and play. I found myself wondering what God has for her and how He can package so much potential in such a small space. I want so badly to make sure that I am focused on His plans and not my own, on His dreams for her even more than her dreams for herself. His ways have always proven to be better in my own life and I desperately want her to see that, to see Him in everything. I pray daily that my children will spend every day of their lives walking in God's plans for them, loving Him wholeheartedly. The beautiful thing about my God is that when I pray that for them, I know that it won't always be the easiest way according to our earthly views, but in some ways it is easier than the alternative. Is it not easier to allow God to fill the gaping void than to fight Him by filling it with other things that require our constant attention? Is it not easier to trust Him and His omniscient ways than to work to figure something out for ourselves that we cannot understand? Is is not easier to be different than to flow with the sad, dreary normal that those around us are content with? I do not ask for my children to fit, to succeed, to be comfortable or normal, but I do know from experience that if they are following in God's will they will have joy, laugh and work and play hard, experience worship and peace, never knowing where He will take them but knowing that it will be good. So good. Those are the things I hope for when I think about the woman behind those baby blue eyes.