A child will lead them

Wow...three and a half years since I last wrote a blog. I now have two sons, the first is four and a half and the second will be two in a couple weeks. Just before the second was born my husband and I bought a house (we were renting a smaller one before). So that's a little life update!

I recently was de-cluttering/organizing, which seems like a constant task, and I read through some of my old college work. It reminded me that I liked writing (sometimes) and some professors said I was good at it. The same day I got an email from blogspot (don't know the last time that happened). I took those things together as a sign that God was prompting me to try this again. Maybe I'll actually post more than twice this time around!

So on to the title: my second son taught me something amazing today. We were browsing the local Dollar Tree for a few things and he started singing, something he does a lot lately. The song he was singing was "Tremble". The only part he knows is "Jesus, Jesus, you make the darkness tremble" which is what he sang in the store. Now, does he know what the words mean? I don't think so. But he knows it's about Jesus and that Jesus is extremely important to our family. My first reaction, shamefully, was to worry that he was saying that name out loud because as everyone knows the name of Jesus can cause offense. But then I corrected myself and started to sing along with him. I was certainly not singing loudly and I don't know that anyone heard either of us, but that one simple moment with a toddler taught me so much about myself and the need to be bold enough to share Jesus with the world. It could be as simple as singing a worship song! Maybe someone will overhear and it will bring hope or encouragement. Maybe someone will even ask what you are singing and you will be able to tell them about the hope you have. Just like the verse I chose for this blog I pray that I will not be afraid of man's opinion or try to please man but instead aim to please God by bringing His light to a dark world. By the way the store had all kinds of Halloween things around and whether you find those things disturbing or fun I thought it was pretty neat that my son was singing about the darkness trembling in the midst of all those creepy and scary things. Who knows, maybe he did know what he was singing and that song reminded him not to be afraid. I know it reminded me.