Waiting for the fall....

Well, I think my theory is correct.
You see I have this idea that kids get hurt more when we are watching. If we watch Will all the time and hold our hands out to him to help him always, don't let him climb up on things and experiment, that he will actually have more injuries.

This might be wrong and I may eat my words later (oooo hopefully not).

Dan is very careful, he is cautious. He let's Will experiment but maybe not to the top of the step ladder like me, just on the first step where he can easily get down. He's a wonderful Father, how I think a Father should be, protective.
But......my theory proved itself true the other day.
I give you Will's first Shiner.
Will and Dan were getting ready for bath time and taking his shirt off, he jerked his head from his shirt and pow, hit is head on the side of the tub. Of course he cried for about 2 seconds, and then was smiling and laughing. But, O how sad Dan was, he feels horrible every time he sees it.
I hate it for him, Will is fine, but Dan, not so much.
Me.....well, I have to admit I'm laughing because it probably should have happened on my watch...
but then there's my theory?

What a picture of the way Christ is with us. It's a simple lesson, but a hard one to really "get".
He loves us, he's not hand off, he's in it, he's right there with us all the time. And yet, we fall, we fail, we get a lot of black eyes.
I've heard some say, "That's why I don't believe what he says is true, because he let's horrible things happen". I have to admit I've felt the same before.
But.... then there is the sunrise. The new day he gives. The ability to start over, fresh, clean, new. Where else can you find that?
Not in this world, if you screw up and fail in job, love, financially. That's it, deemed a failure for life. By credit card companies, loan officers, Tax Collectors, even friends and family.
But Christ? He is there still. He rose from the dead, he did not stay in the grave. Life, freedom, eternally.

And, I'd love to say that the next time I took Will's shirt off he didn't jerk his head out of his shirt, that he learned from his pain, that would make my story really perfect.
But, it's not a perfect story. He jerked it out again.
As we continue to Fail.....
we are never left alone, we are always lifted back up. We do not have to pull ourselves back up, Christ does it. And no one can explain it with words, because it's over our heads.
His Sovereignty in our lives is a mystery. I've always loved that. The fact that we can't understand it fully makes it all the more true to me. We can't explain it perfectly and yet it continues to happen.

The Black Eyes.......
The tornado that has caused much tragedy is hard to explain and understand for many, especially the ones that it has affected.
The election that is in the forefront of our minds right now, me, not really knowing who to vote for.
Horrible things happening all over the world.

Where am I to stand in all this, what can I do?
I do know that waiting for the fall is not the answer, being a pessimist is not going to solve anything.
The thought I keep coming back to is, He is Sovereign.
That is why I believe in Him because He's the only solid thing I know of.
We've all heard it said,
"there are two things sure in life, death and taxes"?
I say, Death and the Need of Redemption (I guess the world thinks of "Redemption" in terms of money, sad).