Most every night my son Reagan asks me 20 or so questions as I try to say goodnight and leave his room... It's his way of stopping the inevitable from happening, him going to bed. He's come up with all sorts of questions, about everything from dinosaurs to how germs work. Boy does he have a lot of them, so it is funny as his mother to know his inquisitive personality and his deep dislike for bedtime that this nightly ritual goes on...
After answering my usual random 10 questions minimum the other night, I was walking out the door with my hand on the door handle when he promptly asked a bomb of a question. "Mom, why did God make us all"? Wow! Talk about a stomach dropping moment! He's only 4 and I am already answering such deep questions? No one told me about this, I wasn't prepared. I had about an instant of credibility before I needed to answer. I walked over to him searching my brain fast and praise God that He spoke faster for me in my spirit then my mouth could stumble over an answer. So I gave him what I felt stirring in my heart...
"God made us because He loves us". Pause. Such a simple answer I thought... He looked at me waiting for more... So I added... "Before you were born, I wanted you so much but God loved you and made you just the way you are because He loves YOU that way. He made each of us so different. We are special and unique and so loved by God". I was speaking not from the head, more from the heart as if it was something I just knew... I was remembering wanting Reagan so badly, as he was conceived and was being formed in the womb. I was thinking about how God created us, and as I felt such a longing for him, God must have delighted, and even longed for Reagan more than I had.
What a gift... Gods gift of our children and us being God's children. We were desired. It makes me feel so loved. And after that question, there were no more that night, thank goodness...
I'm sure there are tons of more accurate theological answers but thank you God for the one you gave me tonight. We needed a simple answer to a deep question for a 4 year old! You delivered and I was so blessed by it!
I hope and pray with all my heart that both of my boys can grow to know and take in God's love. That would be my biggest prayer. I hope you all reading this can either relate or will know of this love as well, it's there for all of us.
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