Loving Kids Creates Loving Kids
“Out of the mouths of infants and children your majesty is praised above the heavens,” or so our Psalm for today says.
Sometimes that seems very true, especially when your five-year-old asks an endearingly insightful question about God.
Sometimes that seems less true, such as when the kids are having a screaming fight in the back seat of the car or a meltdown in the grocery aisle.
There’s less majesty in that moment and more a feeling of, “Having kids–whose idea was this?”
Do you think God ever asks the same question about us?
Creating humanity—having kids—whose idea was this?
It’s certainly possible.
God knows we’ve caused God enough heartache over the years that God could hardly be blamed for rethinking the decision to become a parent.
But what we observe from our scriptures today is that God wants for us what we want for our own children: a safe, happy, nurturing environment for us to grow up in and reach our full potential.
Today we have the story of creation in Genesis, and we observe the dedicated care and attention God puts into creating the world in which we will live.
Bear in mind that this is the Almighty God, who presumably could snap God’s fingers and poof! There are galaxies within galaxies.
But no—God takes time.
God takes six whole days, and of course we understand now that those six days were also millennia of stars and planets cooling and single celled organisms developing into more complex organisms, the long walk toward life of which we are the ultimate beneficiaries.
God does not rush the home that God is creating for us.
What else do we want for our own children as we create their environment? Continue reading