Mama!!!!

Most children learn to say daddy first, right. Then why is it that when they are the ages of my girls---6 and 5---their favorite word is MAMA!!!!! I have to admit that I love hearing this word ninety-nine percent of the time. The other 1% comes when you are just sitting down after getting the baby to sleep and thinking you might just get to what the evening news. I never understood why my mom got so upset when we would chit-chat right infront of the 6 o'clock news until now. "MAMA MAMA MAMA---I hear---WHATA WHAT WHATA I say. She did _______" tell her she can't please MAMA save me is all I hear.

So what do I do--- I sigh and say Thank you God for my children and ask him help me to keep my cool---then I turn the TV off and go see what happened. Sound familiar. I don't know how many times I have apologized to my mom for my behavior as a child... I think everytime I talk to her.

The reason for telling you all this---I asked Madison, 6 and Makayla, 5 how they knew I loved them and they said "because you gave birth to us, you always come when we call, and you always love us."

Isn't that what the Lord does. He waits patiently there until we realize one day he's always been there and he opens his arms and says you are a gift and I love you.