Paparazzi ('Fro Me to You)

This is my family. Well, a small part of it: Nathan (my sister's husband), me, my brother Tim and my mom. This was taken around Christmas 2001. At the time there was only one grandchild, only one nephew: Jacob. We all thought he was best thing in the world. Well, he was! And still is one of the best, only now he's not the only one. Anywho, we were worse than paparazzi in the backyard that day. Rick and Tracy (my sister) were pulling Jacob around in a wagon tacked onto the back of a riding lawnmower. Three cameras and two camcorders. It was a fun day. I don't have any good pictures of Jacob, but I've got this one. And I love it.

You ever think God gets this excited about His children? Do you think He watches with elated anticipation to capture the next delightful thing we may do?

Last night Rick and I watched Evan Almighty. (I was quite reluctant about it, because I HATED Bruce Almighty. I found it offensive and sacrilegious. But this one was very different. I won't go into the details of the movie. I'll just say if you haven't seen it, you might want to check it out.) My favorite part of the movie was the very last scene. Evan, who has struggled throughout the entire movie's journey to trust and obey God, stands in a large meadow under a single tree with God. There he acknowledges God's infinite wisdom and His loving plan, the fact that He saw the future before it happened and gently orchestrated the events to happen in the best possible way. And then they "do the dance." It's not a get down and boogie type of dance; it's a silly little victory dance most people do only when they think no one is looking. My college suitemate and I had one of these dances; just a little happy dance we did together whenever God answered prayers or tickled us in an undeniable way. We danced it a lot!

In the movie Morgan Freeman, who plays God, laughs during the dance. It's a wonderful sound. My spine tingles at the thought of God laughing and dancing with me! Realizing that He loves me so much to delight in me when I delight in Him. It's pretty awesome.

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