The Divine Crash

Last night my daughter spent seven hours crying.  She woke up at 11:30 and cried until 6am.  We had no idea why.  She ate, had clean pants, and had everything she needed.  There w

as no reason for her to be crying.  I wanted more than anything for her to stop, whether it was colic, teething, or just figuring out how to make noise, I had no idea.  I wanted nothing more than for her to stop crying.  We gave her baby Ora-gel, feeding, and rocking.  None of it worked.

Nothing I did was working, in those moments I would have paid any price, given anybody organ, or done anything to make her better.  I was upset because I couldn’t figure it out and everything I was trying didn’t work.

Finally rocking her in our recliner worked and at 6am she fell asleep.

Is this what God felt?  He saw humanity’s tears for centuries.  God was so grieved and so painful after generations of seeing God’s beloved creation destroy itself with sin, shame, and guilt that God had to act.  In the pain of grief God was willing to do whatever it took to take care of His creation.  And in those moments God did.  God gave everything, God gave all of humanity His only son so that in our deepest hurt and longing we had a way out, a chance and a choice for something better.  God knew that the only way for the crying and groans of all humanity to stop was to become flesh, to come into this world and truly say “I know what you are going through” and “I am on your side, to give you hope and a future.”

So then, in those moments when you feel as if you would give anything to help your children know that you are getting a glimpse of how God feels about you.  And when you feel alone and feel at the end of your rope and don’t know what to do, know that God became flesh for you and is there alongside you saying “it will be okay, I know how you feel, I went through it too, and I will go through it with you.”

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