God's Plan...(A Mothers Day Post)

I had a wonderful Mothers Day! My children made me such precious gifts and my husband made sure the day was completely wonderful. What an awesome way to be celebrated!

From Miss C, I received a hand-print picture, which is especially meaningful because she HATES having paint on her hands. Her teachers earned a big thank-you for that one. I have been trying to get her hand prints for this age recorded for a while. From L I received a button-covered cigar box onto which he had also decoupaged flowers. He proudly told me it was a "Button Box to keep special treasures in or just keep buttons in." He also painted a watercolor card with a bird house and bird.

Turns out the card was especially meaningful because we had a pair of birds trying to build a nest in our garage. Luke and I saw the birds in the early morning when I went out to put some things in our recycle bin. At the time, I thought they were just flying in to garage. Then after an hour or so, we went back out to get into the car to leave for Nana's and there were the birds, working so diligently to create a home for their future babies. I told L that we'd have to get Daddy to move it b/c the garage wouldn't be a good place for the birds to live. L looked at me very much stunned that I would say this and said, "Mommy, it's God's plan for the birds to live in here. He knows that the garage is good shelter, and He knows this is where we keep the birdseed."

As you can imagine, I was taken aback. How am I going to explain that if we don't prevent them from building the nest in the garage, we're going to have some dead birds on our hands when we go on vacation or even go away for the day with the garage door closed in the coming heat. So, do you know what I said? "Well, we'll have to talk with Daddy about it." It was Mother's Day afterall, so I didn't have to handle the hard stuff!

Then, I started thinking about God's Plans for our lives. Those birds had worked so hard for that hour to build their nest in a spot that seems like a good one. But, like L, they couldn't see the future heat or the door being closed preventing them passing in or out in a week or so for our vacation. I realized I'm like the birds. It's so funny because I sometimes work so hard to seek His plan...or think I am seeking his plan, but am really just building my nest in all the wrong places. Then, it's often back to square one!

God, please help me to simply seek you. Then, Your Plan will fall into place without all my unnecessary nest-building. You will lead me to the perfect place.
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L, after hearing his Daddy explain about the birds was able to give us plenty of reasons why the birds didn't need to be in the garage after all. "Number one, the eggs might get too hot. Number two, the birds wouldn't have enough water if we're gone....and so on all the way to Nana's house and through number 8..."a spider might cover the nest with a web."