It's my regular prayer that our children will grow up knowing and loving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Yes, there are regular talks about Jesus and God, prayers, bible reading, etc., but today brought one extra special moment as I was getting some one-on-one daddy/daughter time with our 3 1/2 year old, Naomi. As a gift to keep her occupied with new baby around, her Auntie Natalie got her a big book of curriculum-based exercises and activities. So we're on page 2 of the letter identification and coloring activity: 4-boxes with different letters, color in the boxes that match the letter (typically 2 of the 4). Lower-case "b" gets colored orange, but Naomi jumped the gun and colored in the box with lower-case "d". Oops, no big deal. But when I pointed it out to her, I could see her spirit was just crushed! She's a bit of a perfectionist, and so with bottom-lip quivering, just began to weep.
As I comforted her and said it'd be OK, I told her we could try to fix it and erase it with a different color. Clever as she is, she asked if we could use the "white" crayon...
Definitely a super-cute moment, but the Holy Spirit nudged me to go a little deeper with her, sharing with her some insight into God's wonderful character.
Isaiah 1:18-20
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool."
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