"I want my daddy"

This week on campus is WEC (World Evangelism Conference). There are
a number of representatives here from a wide array of mission organizations. They offer a fun week for the kids too, so Drew and Sam have been attending the activities for their ages. Yesterday they learned about China and today Zambia...it has been fun for them!

After I picked up the boys yesterday, we walked over to the dining hall to eat. We were all sitting eating and Lizzy was her usual busy self...(she had already been up several times and knocked a full glass of water all over the table and her chair) when she came behind her chair and pulled on it. Well, when she did this it went flying backwards and she was pinned under it. Yikes! She screamed, oh did she scream! I gently picked her up and just held her and hugged her. I wanted to say matter of factly, "That's why we stay sitting", but I did not, at least not right then (I did say it before the whole seen was over though...I just couldn't not I guess!?). I held her and she screamed. It DID have to hurt, because she had sort of a carpet burn on her forehead and a "goose egg" on the back of her head.

As I was holding her, I was thinking about how much I need this when I am sad or hurt. Someone just to hold me, without saying anything, and let me cry. And as I was thinking this, Lizzy's crying and occasional scream now became a screech of "I want my daddy", more crying, then "I WANT my daddy!!", more crying/screeching, then full throttle "I WANT DADDY!!" I thought through this, isn't that so true. When I am sad, scared, hurt I want "my daddy" too. My heavenly Father who knows, cares, comforts and has never ending grace for whatever moment I may face. It IS truly amazing. And so I was crying with Lizzy in the middle of a busy dining hall...absolutely loving the moment and the profound way the Lord was making the truth of his grace through Jesus Christ, his constant care, his "shoulder" for me to cry on or cry out to so very clear through the sadness and pain of my sweet, busy, Lizzy Joy (who, by the way, usually always wants her mama).

The next thing Lizzy said...and this made me start laughing...when she realized daddy wasn't coming...she said, "I want Sammy!" And he came and gave her a hug AND gave up his Hershey chocolate bar...she was fully recovered after this!



Psalm 10 :17
"You hear O Lord the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them and you listen to their cry."

Psalm 34:18-19
"The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."