You Can Talk to Me You Know

“Mommy you can talk to me you know”  Peyton said to me while I was getting the kids dried off from their bath.

“What do you mean I can talk to you bud?” I asked, not knowing why exactly he said this.

“When Daddy isn’t here and when no one else is here, you can talk to me.  You were talking to yourself but I am right here and I will listen.”  I just love that boy’s sweet little heart.

I realized that as I was sorting through my thoughts, I was talking out loud under my breath.  Nothing goes unnoticed by a small child!  Although few may admit to it, I know I’m not the only person who tends to talk to myself through out the day, even more so when my mind is racing and my emotions become scattered.

Lately, a lot of things have been going on and this week it all caught up to me in one big frantic whirlwind of emotions and questions and considerations.  I feel like I have been spinning my wheels all week to find peace, clarity, answers, anything to ease my mind or point me in the right direction. I felt like this was a small, but significant reminder from God that I was forgetting the most important part.

“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

While talking aloud that day I was frantic.  My thoughts were racing, I was unsettled, I was confused and I was questioning one thing after another.  I had no peace and I was frustrated.  In that moment when my sweet boy said “Mommy you can talk to me you know” I felt it was God speaking through someone whom I would listen (since I wasn’t silencing my own self enough to hear His voice) saying to me “Afton you can talk to me you know.  You were talking to yourself but I am right here and I will listen.”  

It never ceases to amaze me the comfort God can bring to me through the innocent words of my children.
What an incredible lesson to learn.  God is our Friend and our Father.  Go to Him, run to Him, lean on Him, cry out to Him.  He is there for you, even when you feel no one else is.  Stop trying to figure things out on your own and tell Him your thoughts, your feelings and your questions and then be still.  Know that He is God - your Father and your Friend.  He is right here and He will listen.

“Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock and my strong fortress to save me.”  Psalm 31:2