Don’t stop to smell the roses!!
You know that famous cliché about slowing down to smell the roses? Well, I don’t recommend it! Because I nearly took a short cut to Heaven this week.
We were walking back from a little trip to our corner store for some much needed lollies and I let go of my two year-olds hand for a few seconds to smell some beautiful roses, however, in my moment of contemplation over God’s creation, my little boy decided that the middle of the road was far more interesting. So from slowing down to smell the roses, the adrenalin kicked in and without even thinking I darted onto the road to collect him before a car did… thankfully the driver anticipated the situation and slowed down but it could have been a different story and life may have been taken from my family in a second. It made me think though that it was pure instinct to lay down my life for his and I would not have hesitated. Our love for our children is simply so great… in that same way Jesus laid down his life for us so that we might be saved…
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