God and the Docters...

Today was Rileys four year check up. Yes she is getting to be such a big girl and I am so very proud of her. We had to get her ready and done for pre k this year. She is so very excited in some ways, and in others well not so much.

As I took her in and signed her up, i was dreading the worst. We went back there to get her blood taken for her iron and such and she was ok until she was poked and the stinging started. She cried a little but got over it quick. Then we took her into a room to take her shoes off and then went to weigh her. This would tell me mainly how the visit would go. Last time she would not even get on the scale or let them even check her height. She fussed and pitched a fit in the middle of the docters office. It was not pretty.

This time she was calm and cool and stepped right on there and she got her weight nad did well with her height. I was so impressed. At this point I am thinking maybe this will go better than what I thought. So, we go in there and she gets up on the table and get her ready for the docter to come in. Her grandmother Margeret and I were playing with her to see if she had any berts and ernies in her ears or any big birds in her mouth. Its a joke between us and her and just a little game to get her mind off things. She was laughing and carried on and making laughs and jokes out of the silliness really. It was so interesting to watch her.

Then the docter came in and she was acting weird with him checking her over, but she has not been to the docter in a long time, so that is why. She was all healthy and good to go, but then the docter stopped and sat down to talk with me. I was surprised to what I would here. I knew that he would tell me all about her height and weight and to see if she would be average for her age and such, but got more than i expected. He began to say something that would peirce my heart forever.

He said you and her father and also including her grandparents are the most important role models in her life in which i agreed with that. He said as much as you can you need to tell her that you are glad that she is yours and that you love her for who she is and what God has made her to be. Acknowlegde that she is made specail and that there is only one person like her, and that you are so very happy that she is yours only. He siad that when they are not told that as a child they tend to seek it out when they are older and some never find it, but if they are told and know it they will know who they are in your eyes and in Gods. This i so true. We as Gods children seek his love and acceptance. We grow from baby christains to mature christains seeking all that we can from him and we want to know that we are his completely and there is no other like us. God made us all unique, but we have to not only reinforce this with our children but sometimes we need to say this to ourselves. Mostly when this needs to be done is when we do wrong and think God does not love us any more. Just like my daughter in the docters office the first time pitching the fit that she did and then the change the second time she went with being a big girl, we grow the same way. A times in situations we pitch a fit but then as time goes one and that some thing may come up again we deal with it better than we did before. its a process of not only maturing, but a process of knowing that we are becoming more like him and becoming more like a child who knows where we stand in him.

Yes the contrast is so interesting becasue I am going through this same thing a lot riight now in multiple situations, and interesting that he would teach me this through the eyes of a docter uh. See docters normally dont share these type of things, but I am so glad he did and was a willing servant to share the name of the Lord to me. He will never know how much it meant. I think both my and Margeret learned a great lesson, but the meaning of that lesson will life within us forever. So today remind yourself that you are his child and that you are completely his. He loves you and he is there, but the question is how much of you will you give to get more of him.

AMEN