"You'll Never Believe it !"

When the girls were small, we tried to have our evening meal together as a family. So it was, one evening when Daugher #2, then three years old, looked up from her plate with a question that caught her dad and me off guard.

"Where do babies come from?" she inquired.

Her dad and I looked at each other. Where had THAT question come from, and how would we begin to answer it right at that moment? Before either of us could speak, however, Daughter #1 - with all of the knowledge she had gained in her seven years - rolled her eyes, laid down her fork, took a deep breath and looked straight at her sister.

"Don't even ask 'cause you'll never believe it !"

Are there things in our lives that are just difficult to believe? I remember when I found out the truth about Santa. I couldn't believe it 'cause hadn't I just seen him up on the square? In school, it was hard to believe some of the facts about different countries; difficult to understand how far away the moon was when it looked so close in the night sky. As a mother, it is difficult for me to understand how a mother could abort her own flesh and blood. Why would anyone want to murder a school room full of young children? Or why a so-called religious group would want to murder those they believe to be infidels. It was difficult for me to believe the crucifixion story the first time I heard it as a child. Why would any father allow his son to die on a cross for what someone else had done? And, yet, because He loves us so much, because we are His children and because we have all sinned, Someone had to pay for those sins.

As a parent, it is still difficult for me to grasp that idea but I accept it by faith and thank Him everyday for His love for me. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV