Ever have problems sleeping??

Well, that was my problem a couple nights ago. I just couldn't shut off the day. I then started to pray in the spirit and I began to think about something my husband and I had talked about one day.

He was sharing with me about his childhood adventures with his brother. Just one day in the life of a child living on a farm, but the story he shared started to really have an impact on me.

He shared about how he and his older brother would watch their dad leave in the mornings to farm the fields and they would run out to the yard and play themselves as they imagined their dad was farming.

He recalled that they would get their toy tractors and trucks and small hand made bales of hay and work the fields that they created with their hands.

They would make paths for the tractors to travel to and fro and they would reconstruct in their yard a whole play land that would resemble one day in the life of their father.

Then he recalls that one of the tractors would suddenly get a flat tire and they would have to stop farming and tend to the tire.

They would work fervently on that tire-taking a trip back to the farm w/the other tractor and loading up all the tools necessary for the repair.

They would load up such things as chains so they could hoist the tractor up and change that tire.

This is what began to impact me.

These little boys would re-act one day in the life of their father by playing as they " thought " their dads life was.

But............. their dads tractor tire would not need repaired b/c their dads tire was just fine.

These boys decided that their experience in life would be best if there were trials in the adventure of it.

You see, they were not even interested in just a simple day-nothing goes wrong-everything works for the good-kind of play day.

They knew that they would need the trials in the adventure to make the experience better.

They would get more out of the play day if they threw in the trials and the tribulations of the journey.

To them, these small little boys, life was best when there were complications to the day.

Their days were most remembered in the trials they created b/c it caused them to go about something off the beaten path so to speak.

The trials in their play were not distractions they were mountain overcoming miracles b/c they knew they would find a way to recover and their adventure would be best lived out b/c of the trials.

They knew that the experiences would be richer. That they would be richer b/c of the experiences.

Isn't that just amazing.

It reminds me of a scripture- Is. 11:6b NLT

and a little child will lead them all.

This is so significant to our lives right now. There is so much adventure for us to experience and we will be richer for it. If.......

We allow the God of the universe to form us by the trials and trust that HE has found a way for us. Every tire will get changed its just a matter of resting in HIM.

How many times do we watch our children play??

Our little girls trying to be little mommies and yet every time their baby seems to always need to go to the doctor.

Our little boys need a motor changed or a wreck happens and they need to haul the vehicle home.

What are our little ones trying to teach us???

Maybe we are formed by the trials and just maybe the trials in our lives are not distractions but character building treasures that only we " human beings " get to live out.

Of all God's creation- we are fully alive in Christ. What is your experiences in life that you remember the most??

Are they the ones tied to a trial?

What makes us fully alive is our experiences..........

Have a blessed day.