You are A God-A-Like
My daughter was reading my Keen Blog the other day, and laughed when she read “Who started the rumour I am God”.
She told me in a way I was God to her especially when she was younger, I said to her just because I wore long dresses and sandals this didn’t make me God,.
She explained that I was like God because I showed her the right thing to do, stopped her from doing things that weren’t good for her, loved her no matter what, made miracles happen for her, I was always close by, forgave her mistakes.
It got me thinking. I guess we are all like God, (I can just see Bright Destiny hitting his forehead with his hand and saying “at long last, the woman has finally got what I have been telling her for the last 500 years”)
Just as God tries to lead us down the right path, so I tried to lead my daughter down the right path. She would ask “can I do” or “can I have” if I could see that what she wanted wouldn’t be good for her or would cause her harm in some way, like God does with us I would not let her have or do what she wanted, even if she couldn’t understand at the time why I had to refuse her, sometimes her tantrums were monumental, yes I’ve done the same stood in my living room stamping my feet and shouting at God because he said NO to me and I couldn’t understand why.
If she got it wrong I would forgive her and love her just the same, even when she disobeyed me I still loved her. God does the same with us, he gives us choices and if we get it wrong, he still loves us, forgives us and lets us have another go.
I did make miracles happen for her, when she couldn’t see how she was going to be able to do something, or get something she wanted, if I knew it really was a heart’s desire I would make it happen for her to her that was a miracle. Or the Christmas after she had left her letter to Santa in the fireplace, I removed the letter and left a trail of glitter along the fireplace and into the grate and up the chimney, she saw the glitter as fairy dust, to her little eyes it was a miracle. God does that with us, sometimes we can’t see how something can possibly happen and the next thing we know it has happened, maybe not in the way we thought it would, but it happens nonetheless.
She always knows I’m just a call away, and just because sometimes she can’t see or hear me she knows I’m there, she knows if she strays she can always come back, that I will always be here for her.
People have told me I am a good parent and I have brought my daughter up well, I always reply, I just laid the choices down and left her to it. Just like God does with us.
Now at 18 years young, she is making her own way in life, yes she will still make mistakes, we all do no matter what age we are, she will sometimes come running back to me needing my help, just like we go running to God for help. Just like I will always have her best interests at heart, God has our best interests at heart, even when we have trouble understanding it.
Now if I could only do the water into wine thing …………………………….