uninhibited

(originally posted 2/17/08)

The Lord has blessed me not only with a 3 1/2 and 19 month old...but He made them BOYS!!! Having two boys has taught me a lot of things I never learned in my first 21 years of life, especially growing up with two sisters. Some lessons have made me laugh, some have made me cry and others I've just had to walk away from and take a deep breath. One of the biggest "laugh worthy" lessons I have learned is that the male species is born with an abnormal amount of pride for their "bodies"...if you know what I mean. Even as infants they prefer to be naked and once they are old enough to walk and talk they are more then excited to show off the "goods" to whoever is willing to look!! I'm still not sure why God gives them this uninhibited sense of pride, but He does! Tonight, as we were putting the boys in the bath, Ashtyn disappeared into his room looking for a particular toy he wanted to play with in the bubbles. As I went to look for him, I rounded the corner to his room and there he was sitting buck-naked on his floor digging through a basket of toys. He then stood and walked down the hall toward the bathroom ready for his bath. As my 3 1/2 year old son walked completely nude throughout our house, casually picking up toys and talking to me all at the same time...I realized that this uninhibited pride isn't so bad after all. It is God given and maybe, just maybe, it's good!

Lesson Learned? Just as my son so willingly and pridefully prances about in "all his glory" in front of me casually chatting about his day...I could and should be this same way with the Lord. Now...stay with me here. I'm not saying that during your daily quiet time or while listening to praise and worship music on your I-Pod that you should "bare all" physically, what I AM saying is that you should "bare all" spiritually. Why is it that as children grow they develop a sense of people looking at them and tend to become more embarrassed and more "covered up" in order to hide things they don't want others to see or know? We do this very same thing with the Lord. We think that we can somehow hide things from the Lord. Well, we can't. He created us. He knows what we look like completely covered and completely stripped down. Why waste our time attempting to cover something He already knows is there. Walk and talk and parade yourself to your Lord...good, bad, ALL! Bare your soul to the Lord and open up to Him. Don't lose that innocence and pride in who you are before your Lord, stripped down and yourself. Just be you to your father.