Big Brown Eyes

Alright I know it seems like every time I post something it relates to my daughters, well that’s my life right now. God has been really revealing himself to me lately through my relationship with my girls. I know I am not the only parent to catch their child doing something and get a cute story out of it, but here is mine:

Bathtime is “daddy time” in my house. Lately, my 4 year old, Jocelyn, hasn’t been wanting to go to bed with her hair soaking wet, so I have been blowdrying. Yes, I know. Go ahead and snicker. I know you want to. Anyways, I told her to go wait for me by the hair dryer. I come around the corner behind her and she is playing with her mommy’s mousse. I sit her down and ask her “Do you have something you want to tell Daddy?” She sat quietly for a second and then looked up at me with her big brown eyes and said in the sweetest voice, “I love you, Daddy.” It took everything in me not to just forget that she was supposed to be getting in trouble. I waited for a moment, composed myself and asked, “Is there something else you want to tell Daddy?” She then “fessed” up.

It hit me just then that God must get the same feeling of joy when we express our love for him. I also thought, since Lent is coming to an end, how important it is to go to Confession. There is such a great release when we confess our sins. And I know for me personally, I get a glimpse of how much God truly loves me.