One of my favorite things about living in Missouri is an awesome program they have called, Parents as Teachers. A parent educator comes to visit us once a month and we do activities together that are specifically geared towards what the girls should be learning. They also host special family night events. Our favorite is Big Truck Night. Two weeks ago we attended as a family and had lots of fun. We parked our van and then road a bus to the parking lot where all the trucks were. Grace LOVES busses and thought it was very cool to get to ride on one. When we first arrived she was very timid. (Jeremy and I thought it was ironic because the year before she loved climbing up in the trucks without hesitation!) We walked around for awhile letting her take everything in. Faith rode in the backpack and also loved looking around. After awhile Jeremy had to leave for a meeting at church. He told Grace to make sure she drove a truck to tell him about the next day... Only minutes after he left she bravely climbed in the mail truck, and then many others! It was funny. She kept saying, "Daddy told me to drive a truck!" I was sad Jeremy didn't get to see her enjoying the trucks, but glad his "assignment" motivated her to try them out.
I didn't have to look far to find a correlation between this story and my relationship with my heavenly father. I like to check new things out, look around, hold back even. But sometimes when God asks me to do something I find myself willing to venture outside my comfort zone. Why is that? Because God knows what is best! But sadly unlike Grace sometimes my father asking me to do it isn't always enough motivation. Sometimes I doubt. I cling to the comfortable because I'm just not a risk taker by nature. I settle for thinking I can just be faithful where I'm at. I'm still being faithful right? When I look at my daughter's face in these pictures I know I need to trust God to lead me on an occasional adventure-because that is where joy is. Not in faithfullness in the easy comfortable places, but faithfullness in the uncertain adventure.