Fear

Alright so I have to start by telling this story…
One evening right before Faith & Jaeden were going to go to bed, they were asked to walk Maisy our little dog. It was dark out and a little cool. They were out front on the porch when Angel and I heard this blood curdling scream. So we run out there to see what has happened. The kids are gone. What in the world is going on. We can still hear Faith screaming then Jaeden comes around the corner crying but still no sister. Then I see this big dog wagging his tail as if he were in big trouble. So we start putting the pieces together. Angel finally finds Faith out back and we bring then inside the house. Turns out while they were out there this big yellow Lab walks up to see what they were doing (he was so sweet). Faith (being affraid of big dogs) instead of running back in the door she just came from she desides to take a chance to run around the back side of the house to a locked door that she can not get through. Turns out that everything was fine but here's what kept bugging me. WHY DID YOU RUN AWAY FROM ME? I'm your father, the only one that can protect you from danger. Then as I was talking to my children it hit me… how many times do we do that with God? When something tries to come between you & God, how many times have you ran in the wrong direction. Did we run to alcohol? Did we run to a friend that has a negitive influence? Did we run to the arms of someone other than our husband or wife? Hopefully you get the point. We have done all something stupid. We panic. We go away from the very thing that can protect us from evil. Our heavenly Father is there for us always but in that split second for what ever reason I was not an option for Faith (yeah ouch that one hurt me too) to run to. I was not her first reaction. God wants to be the same for us. Anytime something good or bad is happening God should be our first reaction. He should be the first person we go to. He is our protector, oh creator, our friend that never leaves us even in the bad times. He is your heavenly Father and he wants to love you and protect you but you have to go to Him.

The Fire

I was thinking about hard times that we all go through. This post will be pretty brief but I thought it was pretty good.
I have learned that the Forestry Department will sometimes burn the forest on purpose. It's a controlled fire of coarse but the purpose in the fire is to burn out all of the under brush and weeds so the it doesn't take over everything else in the forest. Not only that, if a wild fire were to break out it would be very hard to control. How does this relate to me you ask, well I'm glad you asked. Sometimes in life we have to go through the "fire" or the hard times. If we look to God during these times we know that he has it under control. Why we go through it is another great question that I'm so glad you asked. The fire that we go through help to burn out all of the crap that we don't need in our life. The bad attitudes, the emotional baggage, the financial struggles helps us to focus on the right thing (God) and get rid of the crap. We can see, if we pay attention to what God is trying to show us and get rid of it, it won't turn into a wild fire taking over our lives.