The other night as I was tucking Chloe into bed, I was giving her her nightly Bible verse..."The Lord your God is with you and He is mighty to save. He comforts you with His love. He rejoices over you with singing and He delights in you (and so do I. "- my own little addendum).
Then she asks, "So how exactly does God sing over me?"
"Hmmm....well. I like to think of it like this: He loves you so much and you make him so happy just because you're you that it tickles him and he can't help but bust out with a song about you. Or you could picture it like Morgan Freeman in "Evan Almighty". I love that part at the end of the movie when the main character and God are talking and then end up dancing. So you could think of God as Morgan Freeman dancing with you and smiling and completely delighting in you."
One of my constant prayers for my kids is that they really know how deeply, incredibly, unfathomably they are loved. Once they can accept that love and bask in the depth and beauty and magnitude of it, they are free to love others with equal capacity. You have to be able to receive love before you can truly give it away. My job as their Mom is to constantly remind them and show them how much they are loved.
Dancing with God...what a beautiful mental image. Ahhh, be still my heart. I couldn't stop smiling - neither could Chloe.
Thank you Morgan Freeman for showing such a beautiful image of God.
