Water.

This weekend we had a really relaxing and fun time at the lake with some family friends. I forget what it feels like to be out of the house for that long 🙈👏🏻👏🏻 but let me tell you, it was good.  🙌🏻

I want to share a story with you that happened on Saturday. 

My baby girl LOVES the water. When she’s in water, she is her very happiest. But this is a bit of a narrow view for her, because we’ve only ever experienced bath water, or pool water. Until this weekend. 
Baby girl was completely weirded out by the brownish, clay filled lake water at the sandbar. She was scared of the waves created by all the boats and jetskis zooming past. It was a completely unfamiliar environment. She was used to it being her and I while she’s in the tub, or her and I when she’s in the pool. I took her out of her comfort zone and it freaked her out, even though it would normally be something she would be over the moon about. 

She hated it. That is, until her daddy came and took her. When she saw him (I’ve told y’all what a huge daddy’s girl she is) she lifted her hands up to him and cried for him to take her. He began wading out to the deeper waters. I am panicking thinking she’s about to lose her mind on him, what is he thinking, she’s hating it. 

Lo and behold, something changed. She was in her daddy’s arms, and she was able to see past her fears and finally start enjoying the water, just like I thought she would. 

A while later I tried sitting with her at the shallowest edge of the water to let her play and sit in the water. Again- she hated it. Christopher came and took her out in the deep, and she loved it. She loved it enough that she eventually let me hold her out there. 

There’s a lot going on in and around me right now. It’s a season of the expected going wrong and the unexpected popping up. A season of many unknowns. And it’s such a season where if I don’t keep my eyes on the Father, I will never see past my fears. Raegan didn’t stop being afraid of the water first. She just chose to start trusting her daddy, and then the fears melted away. Perfect love casts out all fear. All fear.  I want to trust him in each and every little thing. So much so that my mouth doesn’t have time to voice worry or complaints, it only has time to reflect on His goodness. 

I’ve tasted and seen His goodness. He is faithful and He is able. 

“He will feed His flock like a shepherd: He will gather the lambs in His arm, He will carry them in His bosom and will gently lead those that have their young.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭40:11‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Find your scripture for today and hide it in your heart. Look into the eyes of the Father and let His perfect love wash over you. Then let your fears fall away.