“Daddy, ouch si Aim”, as our three-year old toddler
pouting-face while pointing at his back head.
“What happened?” I asked.
“Nauntog sa table dito”, his squeaky high-pitch tone
went, still rubbing his tiny hands on his head.
“Are you OK? What do you want Daddy to do?”
“Daddy, kiss the ouch,” now with his cute face beaming
and brimming with confidence.
“OK”, as I embraced him to give him my loudest kiss-smack
on his head.
And in a huff, he went about playing his toys once again.
Nostalgia sets in to me.
A few more months from now and I can ascertain how our
Aim will come to realize that Daddy’s all-cure-all-solution kiss can’t really
heal any injuries or even the tiniest bug bites he gets. A few months for now,
he will ask for a medicine or topical ointment to be relieved from pain or any
physical discomfort. Finally, he will learn to breeze me by and try to solve
his pains and personal predicaments by himself because he knows that his old
folk can’t help anymore at all.
I believe our Heavenly Father is also gloomy whenever one
of us, His children, does not look up to Him during our daily struggles unless
it’s turning out to be a life-and-death situation. We have grown accustomed to
“not disturb” our biological father with trivial stuffs especially when he is
“busy”. We have burden upon ourselves all the daily chores and concerns on us
and relegate God to a mere end-of-the-day director who needs our prayer-report.
But God is neither busy to over-look our simple needs nor
distant to turn a deaf ear to our childlike petitions.
Are you annoyed at the long lines in the grocery counter?
Ask God to give you patience.
Do you feel exasperated when your child-student isn’t
focus on your lesson (me! me! me!). Ask God to temper your temper (please!
please! please!)
Are you exhausted? Ask God for physical healing.
Not sure what to do today? Ask God for direction.
So whatever it is or whatever you are going through now,
or to put it simply, in all things – Ask God for guidance and help.
Because not like an old folk in a rocking chair, He
always can and always wants to make even small miracles in our lives.
We just have to call Him, trust Him and thank Him for His
love that never fails.
Isaiah 49:15-16 says, "Can a mother forget her
infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she
forget, I will never forget you.See, upon the palms of my hands I have engraved
you;*
your walls are ever before me."
God bless po.
