Come to me as a child

There is nothing more precious than a new life.. So helpless and fragile. You hold that baby for the first time and can't help for a moment to feel everything is right in the world. You are blessed with this perfect little bundle to mold and shape into what you hope one day with be a productive loving adult. Giving them knowledge and structure and love and support. They are helpless and don't know how to express pain or fear or hunger or thirst except only to cry out. And you drop everything your doing to tend to that cry. You want to reassure your child that you will always be there no matter what happens. You accept that responsibility without question and no matter how old that child gets you will always remain mom or dad. The one they have grown to depend on and trust. I remember being so excited everytime one of my children did something new. I would record it in their baby book so I could capture the memories.
I can't help but feel that this is exactly how my Father in heaven feels about us.
He wants us to come to him as a child goes to a parent for love and support. He want to pick us up and hold us when we are scared and in pain. He feeds us when we are hungry. He doesn't want us to worry about anything because we have him to love us unconditionally. He hears our cry and drops everything to help us. I think he has a baby book with our name on it and pulls it out to reflect on our lives with him. The day we began to walk ( but with him) the day we began to speak ( but about him) the day we began to eat ( drinking milk of his word) and the day we began eating solid food ( the meat of his word) I know he has picked me up when I fell down and I know he corrects me when I get off track. I can clearly see how precious his little children are to him and why he asks us to come to him as a child. So next time you question where is God when you need him remember he is right there wanting for you to cry out so he can step in and be Dad.