Oh, To Be So Earnest

My son is quite the efficient crawler. He manages to get himself from point A to point B with very little difficulty. 

Oftentimes, point B is me or my husband, Ronny. 

Liam is a people person. He likes to have us around and becomes varying degrees of upset when we go to another room while he is unable to follow. Barricades have become a necessity to get things accomplished, much to his disappointment. 

On the occasions where he is free to roam and realizes we’ve left, he becomes either highly enthusiastic or desperate in his attempts to come find us and be with us again. 

He’ll even come to the bathroom…

When he gets us in his sights again, he’ll get a huge grin on his face and scurry over to be as close to us as possible.

Oh, to be so earnest.

It’s very sweet, and it’s also gotten me thinking.

What if that was how we pursued our Heavenly Father? He never leaves us, of course, but what if our desire to be with Him, to enjoy and be in His presence, showed up as an enthusiastic or desperate attempt to get to Him? 

What if we grinned at Him like Liam grins at us?

I want to have that kind of faith and trust in His affection for me and in my affection for Him. I want to be that earnest in my pursuit of him.

Anyone else?