These photos crack me up.  Here I am in prayer, well, actually, I was worshiping God.  The song "Empty Me" came on by Jeremy Camp and it moved my heart so much that I got on my knees to cry out to Jesus.  I was praying and thanking him for everything in our lives.  Also, I was repenting for my many, many sins.  Well, in this photo, my granddaughter to the left in the photo, was just having a great time.  She was running around, playing with my hair, and jumping on my back as I kneeled down (lower photo).  

It reminded me of the scriptures that tell us to come to the Kingdom like a child.  That is so hard to conceive as adults isn't it??  Think about it.  All the problems we have and encounter in life...the bills, the kids, the marriage, the church duties, everything..and God wants us to be like little children??  

We tend to try and talk ourselves out of that, don't we?  Thinking we have to be "mature" and "responsible". That is true, we do have certain amount of that required of us, on the job and at home..but not in God's presence.  He truly desires us to abandon it all and just be free.  He wants us to "cast our cares" and not carry them around.

I find this so hard to do at times.  I really do.  I try to be all spiritual and sophisticated.  LOL.  Really, I wonder what the Lord thinks about that sometimes!  Our God is loving and kind, slow to anger, abounding in much grace...but I wonder if He looks at us sometimes and says, "Ohhhh my child! Stop trying so hard!!" 

I want to learn/study/comprehend the life of a child so that I can be like that in the Presence of our Daddy.  It is a daily prayer for me.  Life and all of its problems is proving to be much more than I can handle sometimes.  

Lord, teach me to be childlike in this walk with You! 

Amen!

And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3

Samara Renee..enjoying her Nonna as a child should!  Now if only I can learn this as well!