Daddy Leads

2 weeks ago on our way home from the Dells we drove into a terrible snowstorm. It took almost 3 hours for the first 45 miles. Cars and semis all over the place. We barely moved for an hour while they sorted out a path through the wreckage. It was getting worse so we decided to get a hotel in Madison about 3 in the afternoon. Fortunately we did because later down the interstate they didn't move till 1 a.m. Semis couldn't make the grade and about 800 vehicles just came to a halt behind them. They had the national guard out, snow mobiles, helicopters. What a mess.

After we got to the hotel we wanted to get some lunch. We either got stuck or almost stuck 4 times just getting to the hotel so we looked for a place to walk to. There was a Perkins a couple hundred yards away so we bundled up and hoofed it. It was a driving snow so Elizabeth (age 8) held on tight as we made our way over. Sonya and Ethan stopped to push out a car. Later Sonya asked Elizabeth how she made it over and Elizabeth said "I had my eyes closed." We asked her how she made it with her eyes closed and she said, "I close my eyes because my daddy leads me."

Oh if we could just grasp that same faith with our heavenly Father. How often we badger and drag our heels wanting to know every single detail and plan as we try to tell God what's best. We looked at King David in Psalm 27 in Bible study tonight. It's a great hymn of faith, trust, and seeking the Lord. After the first 12 verses of bravado, power, and loud faith King David ends with a simple quiet statement. "Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD." Or as Princess Elizabeth would say,"I close my eyes because my daddy leads me."

Be Refreshed!

Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 20:22 Do not say, "I'll pay you back for this wrong!" Wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.

Scripture of the Day: Mark 10:13-16 13 People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." 16 And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.

Quote of the Day: "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers