I just got back from vacation. My wife and daughters had left two weeks ago and I was to join them for the second week. During that week I was not with them my 5 month old and my 3 year old decided to grow up. When I was little I don't remember making giant leaps in skill and maturity. Maybe I was slow. But I show up on vacation and my 3 year old hops on a bike and takes off and our baby is eating food. How can I value every moment as God wants me to? It would be easy to fill every minute of every day with a multitude of things. We have all been entrusted with many things to be responsible for, but how do we prioritize those responsibilities? The song says, "I don't want to miss a thing." Is that possible? I miss things due to selfish decisions, professional responsibilities and mismanagement of my time. I am reminded of the poem Footprints where God is walking with a man on a beach and the man looks back at the tracks in the sand and says, "how come during the hardest moments of life there is only one set of tracks?"
"Child, I love you and would never forsake you, the times you only see one set of footprints are the times that I carried you."
God is not one to miss things and is so tuned in to our lives that He even catches us when we fall. It eases my mind to know that when I fail and miss those moments in my daughters lives God is still right there with them walking in the sand.
