August 14, 2008

• LOOPTY LOOP

  I got this in an email this morning.....wow....

  "Mommy, where is number eight? I can’t find number
  eight.” I got up and walked over to her and helped her find the number
  eight...but what she did next left me scratching me head, after all,
  isn't there only ONE way to do a dot-to-dot????

  I placed my
  finger on the number eight. Ellie began pushing her crayon from the
  number seven in a circuitous route, up, down, zig and zag, until she
  loopty-looped around the number eight and finally brought her pink
  crayon crayon to a halt at the eighth number.

  “Ellie, you are
  supposed to go straight from the number seven to the number eight. If
  you don’t, in the end you won’t have a beautiful picture. It’ll look
  all jumbled up.”

  She answers me with a question, “Where is the
  number nine?” I point and watch aghast as her crayon jaunts about the
  paper only stopping at the number nine after dancing in as much white
  space as possible. “This is the way I like to do it.” I watched in
  amazement as we worked our way from eight to forty-six; me pointing,
  her loopty-looping.

  “This
  is how a stubborn child does a dot-to-dot,” I whispered to Tim,
  SURPRISE SURPRISE! While talking to Ellie later in the day, she was
  asking me a few questions...this one hit me "Mommy, God points the way
  to heaven through Jesus right?" I was suddenly brought back to earlier
  in the day going through the dot-to-dot with Ellie, and my Heavenly
  Father whispered to me, "This is how a stubborn child does life", And
  once again, a lesson learned from an innocent child, it was clear. God
  has blatantly pointed the way. Go here. This way. And I have said,
  “This is the way I like to do it,” loopty-looping through life.

  Do you ever tell God.....I do it myself......

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