Moments like these

This evening started our new night time routine with Samantha.  As she drinks her bedtime milk, all snuggled up in my arms, Doug wants to begin reading the Bible to her.  We have a toddler's Bible (put into children's language and pictures, with verse references) and tonight we read about Creation and about also about the great flood and Noah's Ark.  She listened intently, pointing at the pictures and watching her Daddy's face while he read.   It took all I had in me not to cry.

Moments like these are what I prayed for.  Moments like these, my little family reading the Bible together, are what I pictured in my head as we lovingly prepared for this child.  Moments like these will be forever etched into my memory.

We are so busy throughout the day, that our special moments come fewer and further between.  We run from class to class, mealtime to snacktime, naptime to bedtime.  We have playdates, preschool, and errands.  We take walks, eat on the porch, do puzzles and color.  We make memories, we learn, we grow.  All of my days feel wonderful, fulfilled and blessed with this little firecraker of a daughter.  But those special moments, where I feel with clarity that this is what I prayed for...moments like these warm my heart, fill me with joy, and have me singing praises of God's amazing blessings in our lives.

I love moments like these.