Make Sure You Are Tuned In

     I'll never forget the time when I was driving down the road, and had Kamdyn with me in the back. I don't completely remember what it was about but I remember being super angry or irritated with someone (no it was not my husband ha ha). I had not said a word to anyone out loud about what I was angry about but I do remember being consumed in my thoughts and irritation and what I was gonna say to this person, someone I really had not known a real long time. As I became engulfed in my anger and thoughts that I had not shared with a soul, all the while planning in my head what I was going to say to this person, Kamdyn yells to me from the back in her somewhat stern voice, very uncharacteristic tone of how a 4 year old should speak or NOT speak to their mother....."Don't Say A Word!!!!"     At that moment I was first shocked, but my mind sobered up from my own thoughts in a hurry and I asked Kamdyn "what made you say that?", and in her sweet honest 4 year old voice said to me ..."I don't know, but God told me to". I was breathless. I began to weep. I knew God had used my 4year old to get my attention because I wasn't listening. I was so consumed with myself, my anger, my own thoughts and plans that I missed it. I missed His still small voice, the one that gives guidance, love , direction and correction. Instead of catching myself and taking myself to the Throne Room....I got myself, my mind, lost in a tizzy. Gods plan is perfect. If we do things our way, we are sure to fail. His ways are higher and there to protect us from a fall. I thank God my 4 year old was sensitive that moment to the Spirit of God, because it no doubt saved me from falling on my face. I never want to miss it, but I admit, I've missed it many times, but He doesn't want us to. He's there to help us and direct us but we have to listen, turn on our hearing aides, have our antennas tuned in geared to listen in. Shut off the spam of our own making and tune in to The Maker who will surely direct us, our mouths and actions, to a more pleasing, and peaceful outcome, one that can still speak truth but one saturated with love and meant for kingdom building and not destruction.