My son really enjoys life. He’s a great kid and I couldn’t be more proud of him. As I sit here typing out this blog I am faced with a number of family photos on the bulletin board in front of me. It is strategically placed there as a daily reminder of how blessed I am. In every one of those pictures my son has a big smile on his face and his eyes are wide open and full of life. It didn’t matter if he was dressed for a Nerf war battle with me, holding a water hose with mischief in his eye, playing with a toy school bus, wearing sunglasses in the car, eating his first piece of cake or getting ready to hang ten on his first boogie board. The kid just enjoys life.

Today, he taught me a valuable life lesson. He reminded me of what it is like to have a childlike faith and how to stop and enjoy the simple things in life.

As he was tying his shoes and getting ready for school he told me that today was going to be a great day. With great interest I asked, “why?” He proceeded to tell me that today was going to be a great day because, “my teacher told me that we were going to have Popsicles at recess today.”As I returned to the kitchen to finish putting the dishes away I couldn’t shake the thought of how happy he was just to have a Popsicle during recess. I was just happy to enjoy recess when I was his age but to have a Popsicle DURING recess? Well, that’s just a whole new level of happiness!

I do pretty good at enjoying life. But, I know that lately I have been consumed with the future and what that looks like for me and for my family. As a Type A personality who likes to think and to plan and to beat many horses to death it can be a challenge for me to “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). For me the being still is not a physical stillness but rather a mental one.

The world in which we live in is constantly changing. We are bombarded with a wide variety of social, economic, political, relational and spiritual issues. We worry about our future and the future of our children. But, our children aren’t worried about any of that  stuff. They don’t have time to worry because if they did their Popsicle would melt.

My son is in fourth grade and that’s what he was excited about today! He trusted his teacher enough to know that what she said would happen. He went to school EXPECTING the promise to be fulfilled and he came home and told me how much fun he had today. May we all have this sort of childlike faith with the God who created us in his image, with the God who never fails us, with the God who never breaks a promise and with a God who wants us to enjoy a Popsicle during the recess moments of our life.