I'm travelling for work this week to Vilnius, Lithuania. On the flight from Amsterdam to Vilnius yesterday, a mother and her son (who was about 6-7 years old) were sitting next to me. Apparently, she had bought him a little Pokemon Go ball about the size of a quarter. That was his 'go to' toy for the trip. He fell asleep on her lying on her lap not too long into the 2 hour flight and slept most of the way. He dropped that ball once and his mom picked it up and he wanted it back in his hand before he fell back to sleep again. She held his hand, and stroked his fingers and fixed his hair while he slept. When he woke up after we landed, he was proudly showing everyone his ball as we waited to disembark from the plane...
Later this morning, trying to sleep around my jet lag, I was thinking/praying about the verse '...the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases...' (see why I do that here) and was reminded of this picture of that mother and her son on the plane. This other verse from the book Matthew (Jesus talking about prayer) came to mind:
"If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust? If he asks for a fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn't think of such a thing. You're at least decent to your own children. So don't you think God who conceived you in love will be even better?"
I found a lot of comfort, encouragement, and love in this message, along with that picture of a mother's love for her son and his ball on the plane.
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| Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash |
