HIDING OUT???

I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is.

– Mignon McLaughlin

From the get-go people have been hiding...Adam and Eve hid in the Garden...hiding from God? Oh yes, didn't they realize He knew everything? How dumb was that...really now!

Very recently the younger of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing hid out...in a back yard...in a boat under its tarp. He thought he was well hidden but failed to realize the authorities would use heat-imaging to find him. The long arm of the law snatched him up!

Children play 'hide and seek'...sometimes it's fun and other times...not so funny...like?...read on.

My parents wisely spaced their five children...four year 'tween each (except the twins, of course). By comparison, M and I had our four in less than a period of five years...what can I say? Fortunately we survived and they're grown.

Being the oldest, I viewed myself as an authoritative 'little mother'...I'm sure the four I 'ruled' over viewed me as ' the monster'...you think?

One day while I was 'in charge' my youngest brother disappeared ...I looked everywhere. We lived one block from a very large county park and I scoured every inch of it...no luck. Talk about panic-stricken, I was losing control. What in the world...where could he be? Well, as it turned out, not far. He had spent all that time...ALL THAT TIME...hiding behind some bushes next to the foundation of our very own home.

 

 

I had more than a few bad thoughts about him...but you know what? Looking at those big, innocent blue eyes, that curly hair and chubby little body...I hugged and kissed him w/love & sweet relief!

Do you ever hide…you? No! Some people are almost perfect...me? Far cry from that; I've lots of stuff I hide...especially when I don't want to be 'found out'. It's no fun pretending to be something I'm not...so why torture myself that way? Besides it is most difficult keeping up pretenses...might forget who I'm pretending to be. You get my drift?

Strangers and friends finding me out is totally embarrassing. Guess I forget God is in my life! What??? Oh yes Vasca...GOD is in your life...24/7...He knows every single thing you do. But you know the scariest thing of all concerning God? HE even knows my every single thought...never, ever misses a thing…aargh.

I recall my mother-in-law (lived one block from us) would call and give me a current traffic report on our four little boys…they would ride around the block on their trikes. In turn I’d tell them where they’d been and they’d ask how I knew…sweet little innocents! I’d say, “I have eyes in the back of my head” and they’d swallow it, hook/line/sinker. Wonder what kind of eyes God has???   All seeing...all knowing, that's what.

I’m practicing what Jim Elliott wrote, "Wherever you are, be all there." God’s already there and He’s all there all the time…wherever I am…putting that in my active memory bank! Yes!

From my heart…to yours,

Vasca