“There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.” Deuteronomy 1:31
My daughter is barely three feet tall. There’s no way for her to physically carry me.
That’s a good to remember when I’m tired.
There’s no situation where she can carry me, and I have yet to be in a situation where I couldn’t carry her.
This fact has made me consider God’s love for me in a new way.
There’s no situation I could be in where it would be my duty or responsibility to carry God. Likewise — and this is true in an absolute way for God in a way it’s not for me as an earthly father — there is no situation I could be in where God is not able to carry me through it.
My daughter is in quarantine right now, and we are with her: negotiating time for work with the time and attention she needs.
Yesterday it hit me.
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