Dave, a sweet lingering fragrance from this morning's conversations:
'seeking God' ? Like a child grabbing a dad's (or granddad's) face with both hands and pulling that face right up to the child's face - saying (literally or metaphorically) "LOOK AT ME, HEAR ME - I'M HERE, LOVE ME, I LOVE YOU" . I'm so thrilled and sucked into this image, this reality, this metaphor of God and me. And yes, a bit sad because of the memories of when I pushed my children away because they were 'interrupting' me, they were being 'rude', 'selfish', oh how I wish I could turn back the pages of time and listen, look, love my girls like I try to do with the grand-boys now, now it is so much easier to turn my attention from the 'important' conversation or other matter I'm involved in at the moment and focus on the grand boys, to even feel wonderful that they want my attention, that they can ignore propriety and the stuffy social graces, that they will act past the adult - child rules and demand my attention, and insist that I recognize them and their love. Wow, to be in the full recognition of God's presence like that, or better still, to be fully unabashedly in trust of the Creator to demand His attention, His love, as His child...hmmmm, gotta still work on that one...Mike Branch
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