Finding Dad

Trodding to meadows oozing from long ago rains, Hubby and Analytical Son set on their journey among sleeping grasses and bare trees. Returning skies of gray, display clouds in an unusual array. Cool air breezes greet them on their path away from little farmhouse. Where many a soft ground gives way under foot, boots gathering wet, brown earth. Nature calls them out, birds singing, hawks hovering, field mice running, deer eating, Sammy dog sniffing, Daddy & Son walking. They go.

Younger, Warrior Son not wanting to venture out in such slush, stays behind. For a little while. He thinks a long moment, then asks, “Mom, Where’s Dad?” A missed opportunity now dawning on him. “They went outside. Remember? You didn’t want to go. To muddy.” I explain.

Little warrior feet now running through our farmhouse, then out. There. Where slimey surfaces saturate and transfer grimey goo to cowboys and boots they walk in.

With Daddy and other Son long gone, younger Son must wait for them. But he doesn’t. Young in years, but bold in temperament and a little confident in “warrior” skills, he set out to those meadows. To where I don’t know, because I never knew he went. Until he returned from the east meadow.

My little warrior Son searched for Dad, he now tells me. Looked in meadows and by newly rebuilt ponds, to no avail. No Dad. No Analytical Son, known to him as brother. Alone with a stick, young Son braved wild animals and lone tracks made by little warrior boots. Or so I thought. Someone else was there, he excitedly explains. While still grappling with the lone distance he’d gone, away in hidden grasses, and “what if’s” bursting through my head, he exclaims “Mom, I felt the Lord with me!”

While walking in wide open spaces and squishy earth, traversing vast steps of oneness, the LORD stepping there too. Finding Dad, was where he found Eternal Dad. Among sleepy meadows, creation speaking of HIM, like the water seeping from the earth. Dad, Abba joined this little heart’s journey. A heart that longed to be with Dad and found it.

A literal WALK with Him this Wednesday. One that'd make any Mama's heart smile. And can make yours smile too, because He wants to walk with you.