Lessons From Goats

God really is teaching me a lot lately.  I SO hoped I could find one thing he was teaching me that had to do with goats.  Well, not with goats per say but with this picture of goats.  It's my favorite from this week.  I love the Little Guy's fearlessness and watching him do new things.  I think it's hilarious that he is surrounded by goats--not really an everyday occurrence.

The biggest thing God is teaching me right now though is that the Little Guy doesn't belong to me.  It's scary.  Way scarier than letter him run into a pack of goats.  Goats are probably not called a pack but I didn't know what a group of goats were called.  Plus pack sounds way more ominous and dangerous--clearly an apt description of these animals.

I've been following stories of a few babies lately.  One is a friend of a friend who was born with CDH.  Another is a dear friend who just had a baby born with Down Syndrome and is still in the hospital even after a week.

Sometimes when I was pregnant with the Little Guy I would think of milestones I wished to reach.  13 weeks--chance of miscarriage goes down.  24 weeks--baby can technically survive with lots of help.  37 weeks--full term.  But then he was born and there were things to worry about like SIDS, car accidents, unidentified illness.  And I realized that I couldn't live life from milestone to milestone.  When he's 16 I'm going to worry about him learning to drive.  When he's 8 I'm going to worry when people are mean to him.  When he's 18 I'm going to worry about him kissing his first date.  Ha ha just kidding, surely he'll be 28!

I am really having to consciously hand him over to the Hands that made him.  Psalm 139 is one of those "everyone loves it" kind of chapters.  It's for good reason.  The words are beautiful, true and comforting.  Especially to a Mama who just wants to protect her sweet boy from this world.

13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

I read them over and over.  I have to hide this on my heart.  That before the Little Guy and the Littler Guy were even thought about God had all of their days ordained.  I'm sure glad he ordained us a day with the goats.
 
 
 
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