On Sunday, Anna had a very hard time sitting in the worship service. Daddy was preaching in two services at an retirement community so not only was it a lot longer of a morning, there was also no place to take a very tired little girl.
Right before the sermon of the second service I took Anna out. I wasn’t sure exactly where to take her until I saw the gardens. They were BEAUTIFUL. As soon as were were outside Anna’s attitude changed. She was thrilled to be out in God’s World discovering anything and everything.
After letting her explore for a little while I looked down and saw very dirty little feet poking out from her pretty pick dress. My first reaction what to be upset that I had allowed her to get all dirty, but then I thought a second longer and realized that the dirt wasn’t going to hurt anything. She was having a ball toddling around holding onto trees and picking up gum balls. She was learning to love God’s creation – there isn’t much that is better then that.
When it was time to go back in an visit, I quickly wiped her feet off with baby wipes, dusted off her dress and you would have never known that she had just finished playing in the dirt having a time off her life – except for the happy contented look on her face. That was worth it!
