Trust Pass...Day 33



"trust pass"

When my youngest son was just learning to walk he had a little pair of green canvas shoes.  One day I drew a picture of his shoes.  As drew I thought about what my hopes were for him. I drew and thought and prayed. As I finished up I remembered a verse from the bible that summed up my hopes for the little guy: 

to act justly

to love mercy

and to walk humbly with his God.

(from Micah 6:8)

I wrote Micah 6:8 on the picture and framed it.  It has been hanging in our kitchen for almost 18 years.  I just recently took it down to "edit" it because I spelled the word "humbly" wrong....kind of humbling! :)

I was thinking about this today...how much trust it takes to pass off the baton to my son as he prepares to graduate, go to college and live away from home for the first time.  It is like taking all the things we have taught him and all the prayers we have prayed with him and saying..."Okay, now it is your turn to grab hold of this and run with it!"  It is comforting to know that even when our children are out from under parental wings...they are always in the shadow of God's wing.

Now my son's feet, that used to fit into those tiny shoes, fill up a size 12...but my hopes are the same:

He has shown you, O man, what is good.
   And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
   and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8

and God is faithful!