MY DADDY

            The visiting minister at the Cape Croker United Church was attempting to demonstrate faith.  Calling our five-year-old son Stephen up to the front, he set him up on a platform, and told him to jump down.

            “I’ll catch you, don’t worry,” he said, holding out his arms.  Stephen hesitated, then found the courage to jump, probably because his own Daddy had caught him many times.  The minister duly caught him, and all was well.

            “We have to trust God in every situation in life,” the minister was saying.

“He is strong and able to ‘catch’ us.  He is our loving Daddy.”

Just then, three-year- old Grace, our daughter, piped up clearly enough for everyone to hear:

 ”My Daddy has big muscles!”

Smiles and warm laughter spread through the little church.  Well-known and liked in the community by now, both for his help in the garden training project and for his up-beat personality, Daddy Rien certainly did have the well-developed muscles of a man who had done physical work all his life.

Would that we all had such child-like trust in our Daddy!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart…(Proverbs 3:5 NIV)

…I will never leave you nor forsake you. (Joshua 1:5)