Clear As Mud

It was the day after a hard rain.  As always, the kids were drawn to the big mud puddle near the drive way!  They had just invited one of their friends from the neighborhood to come over a play and low and behold they end up covered in mud.  The kiddos had a wonderful time!  It was such a blast that I had to capture the event with a picture.  As my finger pressed down on the button and I glanced onto the screen to  make sure it was a good shot, I felt the Lord tell me that I too am like the children.

So often I forget to focus on Him and am lured to play in the mud.  When I do so,  I forget to see the things in my life the way He sees it.  I forget that His ways are higher than ours.
It was funny, because this particular day I had been struggling with the financial end of the adoption.  I was looking at things from a human perspective.  I was focusing on the fact that by adopting we will not get that vacation we were thinking of taking the kids on.  We will not be able to work towards getting Bryan a better retirement plan.  We may even need to do drastic things to bring home the child the Lord has for us.  I was waddling is these fears.  The world  tell us we are crazy and on this day I was telling myself we were crazy. 
Looking down at my mud covered children, I knew the Lord was using them to tell  me to quit being lured into the mud and quit seeing things the way the world does.  Look to me!  Fix your eyes on me!  If not, it will all be clear as mud!!!!

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire, he set my feet on rock and gave me a firm place to stand.       Psalms 40:2