Treasure Hunt

Where are they? What could I have done with them? Not again! Not Now! We are going to be late. UGGGGGG! I have to find them, right now. Okay! STOP Breathe, In, Out. Think. Where did I have them last? Last night, I came in from the store, where is my purse? They are not in my purse… Bathroom! No, not there. Kitchen! I put the Milk away are they in the refrigerator? No! Oh I am so not in the mood for a scavenger hunt. How can I be so careless? How many times have I said to Kevin, “If you put things away you won’t have to go looking for them.” Now is not the time for my own words to come back to haunt me. Okay keep looking, they could not have just gotten up and walked away. Now is not the time to panic. BREATHE! IN! OUT! IN! OUT! Where next? Pantry? NO! Freezer. The little one? Of course not, the big one. The one that I just dump everything into. How will I ever find anything in there? KEVIN, GET ME A COUPLE BOXES AND THE EMPTY LAUNDRY BASKET WOULD YOU PLEASE? Here put the meat in that one, the veggies over there hey look some apples we froze 2 years ago. They still look okay, leave those out and we’ll fix an apple crisp for dinner. What am I doing? What do you mean what am I’m doing? I’m cleaning out the freezer, what does it look like I’m doing? Late? Late for what? Oh yea! Well I can’t find the keys. Help me look for them, Please? You have them? They were on the floor and the cat was playing with them? Oh what a precious boy you are! Thank you so much for picking them up! What would I do without you? Well, we better hurry and dump all this back into the freezer! I’ll organize it later.
I went looking for keys and found a treasure. My son! The precious gift from my Lord, my child. I am supposed to be teaching you, grace, forgiveness, mercy and love. You have and are showing me so much more than I have you. I am amazed how each and everyday I am given so much more than I could have ever asked. It amazes and humbles me to see how much I have to learn, and how so many times the Lord uses the mouth and heart of a precious child to teach me.

At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:1-4