There she was, likely the cutest little girl in the whole grocery store! I was turning my cart to head down the aisle that her and her mommy were exiting.  In her exuberance to find her brother she almost ran into me. Whoops! Her mom was apologizing but there was no need.  I looked at her and said, “well hello!” She excitedly began telling me a whole list of things I knew I would never understand. Mom saw the puzzled look on my face and expertly interpreted every word. I was impressed! Her brother had ran ahead to get the milk, and she wanted to catch up with him.  

Her gibberish reminded me of when I was near her age and my oldest brother had gone off to fight a war.  Mom was writing him a letter.  I wanted to write one, too. Even though I had not yet learned how, Mom handed me a blank sheet of paper to which I happily began scribbling all over.  To me the scribbles represented everything in my heart I wanted to tell him. That the scribbles came out looking like a big blob of nothing, well, hopefully he understood there was a whole world just waiting for the right interpretation!

This morning I was reflecting on the little girl at the grocery store and those scribbles and couldn’t help but compare all of us. As His children we too are growing into our crowns and taking our rightful places as sons and daughters. How our prayers and thoughts must look like gibberish to the heavenly host, but as we are learning to speak the heavenly language, the Father easily interprets every thought and I can easily picture Him posting all of our scribbles on His giant refrigerator!

It has been a busy, hectic, hard past few months.  I probably have a dozen or so blogs floating in my head that I haven’t had the time to focus on or post. As I was writing in a journal that a friend of mine had purchased for me, I was encouraged by the words printed on the front cover that said, “I will trust in You”. It is definitely a season of trust! I am so grateful to have a heavenly Father who holds me close, even in my mess of thoughts. May He hold you close today, too.