“Draw. Draw.” My toddler begged.
I reached for the crayons. “Okay, we can do some colouring.”
She helped me get some paper and our mini colouring table.
I passed her the open crayon box. She took a blue crayon out, then handed a green one to me.
“This one is for me?”
She pointed to one of the papers. “Mama draw.”
“Okay. Hmm… What should I draw? I know. I will draw a circle.”
As she scribbled on the page, I drew a circle. I added two eyes, a triangle nose, and a mouth to the circle.
“Look, I drew a cat.”
“Kitty! Ear.” She reached over and scribbled blue where the cat’s ear should be.
“Thanks for giving my cat an ear.”
Taking the crayon box, she exchanged her blue for a different crayon. This crayon was orange, but when she pulled it out, she noticed something.
“Broken.” For a moment she looked about to cry.
“That’s okay,” I tried to reassure her. “You can still colour with it.”
She stared at the two pieces of crayon in her hand, then tried to put them back together. It, of course, didn’t work.
She turned to me confidently. “Dada fix it.”
I was tempted to laugh, but her little face was so serious and confident.
“Maybe Dada will fix it. You can ask him when he comes home.”
She nodded and repeated her words. “Dada fix it.”
Setting aside one of the pieces, she happily returned to her colouring with the other broken piece.
This was only one example of the many times I have heard those words uttered from her lips with complete confidence.
“Dada fix it.”
When she saw a ripped book, she was concerned, but then told herself, “Dada fix it.”
When she saw an upholstered chair that had long ago been shredded by cat claws so that it now was adorned by a blanket. She was sad, but then decided. “Dada fix it.”
The faith my little girl has in her daddy’s ability to fix things has shown up many times.
Sometimes my husband does indeed fix whatever it was that was broken. Other times he does not. Yet still she remains confident of his ability to fix anything.
What about me? Do I believe that my Heavenly Father can do anything?
Do I really believe what Mark 10:27 tells us?
“Looking at them, Jesus said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.'” (CSB)
Now just because God can do anything doesn’t mean that He will.
Yes, my husband could technically fix the broken crayon. He could melt the two pieces and reform them into a whole new crayon. Did he choose to do this? No. Instead, we taught our little girl to be content to work with what she has. Broken crayons still colour just fine. Indeed, a few months later, she often sought out that broken crayon as one of her favourites to colour with.
Philippians 4:6 says, “Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (CSB)
God can do anything, and He wants us to bring our requests to Him.
He will not always do what we ask or want, yet He still wants us to ask Him, even if the thing seems too small to bother or too impossible.
Nothing is too impossible for God.
Today, may I truly believe that God can do the impossible, and may I bring my requests to Him.
As I do so, Philippians 4:7 will become mine. (I’ve included verses 4-7 for fuller context.)
4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:4-7 CSB)
