I was in the middle of trying to write a post, having trouble forming sentences when I got a text. Remember when I drove across the country with Emily? Well, her dad sent a group text of her little girl jamming to this worship song.

I had seen the video before, but this morning the lyrics stood out and was God reminding me what He’s done. Obviously, it was a snot cry fest as I sat here going “WHAT. YES.” I included the song at the end of this post.

The post I was originally writing was about my babies at school and how God uses the simplest things to teach us the most profound lessons. It has been fun to watch them grow. They go from hardly able to do tummy time to rolling over to building the stamina to sit up. They go from sitting up to holding themselves up to crawl which of course builds up their little legs to be able to walk. My favorite part is watching them get frustrated in each step because it is new and difficult in the moment. They do not understand in order to crawl you have to build the muscles and strength that is happening in learning to hold your head up. They stare at a toy across the floor in agony, frustrated they cannot go get it even though they are in the crawling position. “Why won’t my body move forward?” and then a face plant usually happens as their little arms give out.

This is the picture of our walk with God and we grow from glory to glory. Sometimes, we want so bad to rush seasons and be ahead when the reality is we are not ready yet. We have to build our strength and stamina in order to withstand the next season. We get frustrated when we fall down and get “stuck”, but it’s in the “stuck” that we are building our muscles to make us stronger to move forward. If we give up and run from situations how will we learn to endure in the future?

I cannot post the videos, but here are some screenshots of the first time one of my babies crawled. My coworker filmed to send to his mom. It was so funny to watch because for weeks he’s been in the position and so confused why he couldn’t move forward. He would get so frustrated as he stayed there unable to move.
“And suddenly” he realized he could move. So, I held a toy out like a horse and carrot and had him follow me. haha

I am so proud.

Faith like a child. Keep running the race.
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I was.”

I made an art wall that doubles as a window covering to block some light as we share a classroom with the one-year-olds. Their art says, “While we try to teach children all about life, children teach us what life is all about.”

“Look what you’ve done
How could you fall so far
You should be ashamed of yourself
So I was ashamed of myself
The lies I believed… they got some roots that run deep
I let ’em take a hold of my life. I let ’em take control of my life.
Standing in Your presence Lord I can feel You diggin’ all the roots up
I can feel Ya healin’ all my wounds up
All I can say is Hallelujah!

Look what You’ve done
Look what You’ve done in me
You spoke Your truth into the lies I let my heart believe
Look at me now
Look how You made me new
The enemy did everything that he could do, Oh but look what You’ve done.

Suddenly all the shame is gone
I thought I was too broken, now I see You were breaking new ground inside of me
Standing in Your presence Lord I can feel You diggin’ all the roots up
I can feel Ya healin’ all my wounds up
All I can say is Hallelujah!

Look what You’ve done
Look what You’ve done in me
You spoke Your truth into the lies I let my heart believe
Look at me now
Look how You made me new
The enemy did everything that he could do, Oh but look what You’ve done

On the cross, in a grave With a stone, rolled away All my debt, it was paid

Look what you’ve done”