dailydatewithgod

One of the thing that makes me giggle is watching a scene where a child is causing a commotion and the adult will tell them to stop fussing.  What exactly is the child supposed to do?  They have limited words to communicate.  Children are not yet trained to squelch their emotions.  Maybe there is a legitimate reason they are fussing.  They are not doing it to make the adults around them uncomfortable.  Why is it when it is the adults fussing over a new baby, it is okay?  It is funny how we interpret disruptions.  We all have set ideas in our minds about how things are supposed to go or what is to be expected.  Our brains are wired this way.  It makes sense for our survival to feel like we are walking into something we can handle.  But life is not just like instructions on a shampoo bottle: lather, rinse, repeat.  The moment it begins to feel like that we get bored and start looking for something new.  We are equally wired to be drawn to novelty.  The discord comes when we expect the novelty to come from only certain interactions or experiences.  Children making noises or put-sing about with no understandable purpose is not the kind of novelty we imagine.  God encourages to see with our hearts which are ready to learn ways to bring love into any situation..  If we are open to God showing up in random and perhaps unintended ways then we can approach fussing with curiosity.  What is the person (adult or child) fussing about?  What might be the reason behind it?  An even deeper question is what are the things I am fussing about in my mind that I am not sharing?  We can choose to open our hearts and find curiosity present to whatever situation we are in.  We can kindle the fire of love within us as we approach a seemingly annoying experience of fussing and find something novel.