A Bubblegum Tree?

The other morning before the day started, we sat down with the three girls (Willow, Poppy & Piper) to read the Bible, talk about it and look for our "grain of grace" for the day. We're ashamed that we did not do this at all with our first three kids and are hopeful to start a new habit with these three that kicks our day off on the right foot. This is one of the benefits of doing it all over again - we get to right at least a few of our wrongs (hopefully), and we certainly have our fair share of wrongs.

On this particular morning we considered the creativity of God and wondered in amazement at how He created something from nothing. We asked the girls if they could do that, and they all quickly nodded their heads indicating they could not. But we did all acknowledge that God's creativity included giving us imaginations that can also be creative. We then asked "If you could create anything you wanted out of nothing, what would it be?" Without hesitation Willow perked up and said, "A bubblegum tree" (with slurred speech that only family members can understand). Now we've never heard of a bubblegum tree (except maybe on Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory), but that was imaginative and, to Willow, the most incredible creation she could conjure up.

That was our grain of grace for the day, a bubblegum tree - an image that's hard to shake.

Thankful for little, creative imaginations,