Clicks

Two weekends ago, I grabbed my camera (not my phone) and decided to just click. Click things that I wanted to stick and remember. Of course, now that I look at my "clicks" I see how different they seem and that day will never be replayed. The live action of it all. I can try to remember how the day went while looking at these smiles or action shots but it's a day I will never get back. It makes me wonder, how many I have taken for granted. Not meaning too. Just do because that's my life every day. I don't notice the little changes with each kid except when I look back on these pictures and blog books. It makes me sad. Not the sad that I regret anything but sad that I won't have that specific moment again, when they had more "baby face" in them. 

I'm very fortunate that I am not around people who "warn" me of the years they get older but instead I feel the Lord whispering through random others or moments of how sweet that time is when they do get older and more independent. I want that for our relationships. To change and get closer to a mentorship and prayerfully to a friendship (with whom I share with my own mom). Only God can do that and as I look at these memories through "clicks" I'm reminded that these are moments that build into greater moments. Including the harder moments that the Lord will draw me closer to Him. It's amazing what "clicks" can do to your heart. It's amazing how the Lord uses these little people to make your heart for loving others bigger, to constantly teach you love, patience, prayer, and constant dependence on Him. And hope. A hope that these little ones will grow up to love Him and be saved eternally. To trust Him (and use us) to lead them to bigger and better things than we could imagine. 

These "clicks" of life I'm so thankful for...

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