Images of God
My wife and I recently experienced a revelation from our 1-year-old daughter, Anna. She has been calling her pacifier "sea-saw." We thought this was just a cute mispronunciation of pacifier. However, while recently teaching her how to pray we have realized that her word for Jesus is likewise "Sea-saw!" What have we done? How did this connection between Jesus and a pacifier occur? 
Before bed each night, Rachael and I sing a personal lullaby I have written for each of our children. Anna's song begins with the words "Anna look to Jesus, never will he fail you." We realized that the last thing we do before singing this song is give Anna her bear and pacifier. Then we sing about looking to Jesus. To confirm this connection we asked Anna before bed what her teddy bear was called - she said "sea saw."
At first I thought about how we could undo this grave misunderstanding. Then I thought of Matthew 11:28. Jesus says "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest..." Her teddy bear and pacifier are the most comforting things Anna understands. When all is going wrong, when her black and white world is spinning around her little toddling body, her weary eyes become heavy, and she just needs some familiar comfort, she turns to sea-saw.
In time we will augment her understanding of Our Lord. However, I think for now we will allow our little girl to receive comfort from her Sea-Saw.
Before bed each night, Rachael and I sing a personal lullaby I have written for each of our children. Anna's song begins with the words "Anna look to Jesus, never will he fail you." We realized that the last thing we do before singing this song is give Anna her bear and pacifier. Then we sing about looking to Jesus. To confirm this connection we asked Anna before bed what her teddy bear was called - she said "sea saw."
At first I thought about how we could undo this grave misunderstanding. Then I thought of Matthew 11:28. Jesus says "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest..." Her teddy bear and pacifier are the most comforting things Anna understands. When all is going wrong, when her black and white world is spinning around her little toddling body, her weary eyes become heavy, and she just needs some familiar comfort, she turns to sea-saw.
In time we will augment her understanding of Our Lord. However, I think for now we will allow our little girl to receive comfort from her Sea-Saw.
posted by Daniel Cherry at 9:43 AM
3 Comments:
Glad to see you've been blessed since the days we were in class together at HUGSR.
Sounds like good parenting to me. You're right: She'll come to know the difference (and probably already does to an extent), but she's learning some good lessons right now on finding comfort in Jesus.
Good to find your blog. I'm adding your blog feed to the CofC weblogs group. If you're not familiar with the group, you can find it here:
http://groups.blogdigger.com/groups.jsp?id=1700
Your new posts should begin appearing some time Saturday.
Peace.
Very cute. Hope you guys are doing well. I miss seeing you at the Grad school.
Mark <><
I'm so glad that when the children were "disturbing" Jesus' teaching, he pulled the focus to them instead of ejecting them from the assembly. We can learn so much from their simple faith adn understanding and the innocent ways they learn lessons. Thank you Milton, it's good to hear from you and that you are doing well also. Was it "Expository Preaching?"
Good to hear from you too Mark. Are you still plugging away at the M.Div? Keep it up! I've been so blessed by it. As Huffard says, Let God work in you so he can work through you.
God Bless!
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