dee dee, take a picture of just my skates...

so, my sweet little Larissa Moo Poo got some pretty nifty hot pink roller skates at the thrift store.
her first pair of roller skates, mind you.
and?  fortunately for her, the bryes' house is mostly hard wood flooring - (aka, indoor roller rink). 
the first time i came over after The Skate Purchase, she came wheeling out of her bedroom (all dressed in her silk owl jammies), showing me her moves... showing off these awesome skates. 
and they were awesome.

i was so impressed, that i got out my camera to capture the new roller derby princess... and she was thrilled!
she posed.
and then, pretty immediately, she hiked up those cute owl jammies, stuck her pudgy knees in front of the camera, and said, "oh, here, DeeDee, you probably want to get a picture of just the skates..."
i dutifully obliged, and chuckled to myself...
of course i don't want a picture of just the skates!  she's the cutest kid in the world* (*statement is true to author, though views of reader may not be reflected here), she's my Lissy Moo Poo, my artsy, creative, funny, full-of-life small friend with new pink roller skates.  sure, i think the skates are swell.  but they're only swell to me because they are currently being wheeled around in by this afore-mentioned adorable small friend.

while she was obviously stricken with adoration for her new skates, her assumption that i would want in my photo album at home a picture of only her new skates was silly to me!  it's her i love!  not her little skates!

and as i chuckled, i kind of felt God tapping me on the shoulder... saying that sometimes it's funny how i do the same thing in my grown-up world.
huh?
i acquire some thing, or accomplish some achievement, or do some great act of service... and i stand before my Father, God, and say "you probably want a picture of just this..."
and he chuckles, and wishes i would really know...
really know how he really loves just me.
and oh, how he loves just me!
the way i love just that Lissy Moo Poo... and so much more! (imagine that!)
and, as great as the "skates" might possibly be in my life, my Father is really supremely interested in me... and my relationship of love and life with him.


and that's what i want to be supremely interested in, too.

3 comments:

Dulcimer said...

I love this. And I love you.

:)

Jaylene said...

this is so true and we all need to be reminded! thanks b!

Susan said...

your heart is beautiful. you are a masterpiece.

 

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