We're So Fragile

There are no words in any language on earth that can describe the depth of what I feel for my sons.
This feeling only intensifies exponentially when they reach out their arms for me, give me sloppy toddler kisses, bring me a broken toy to fix (because apparently I am all-powerful and can fix anything), laugh hysterically at my silliness, lay their heads on my shoulders when they're tired, or come running to me when they've been hurt.
It is an immensely powerful feeling to know you are the very center of someone's universe.
We've been in their shoes.  Some of us have been shattered when that person, upon whom we assumed the sun ascended and descended, proved to have feet of clay.
Perhaps that person was a parent, an aunt or uncle, a grandparent...
maybe that 6th grader - when we were only in 2nd grade;
a senior when we were a puny soph;
our best friend with whom we shared our deepest darkest secrets,
and consequently we became intimately acquainted with a feeling called insecurity - the kissing cousin to inferiority  who are the offspring of rejection.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved." Ephesians 1:1-6

If we would but fully grasp the meaning of being adopted and accepted by the Creator of the whole universe, space, galaxies, heavens...everything that exists that we can and cannot see, that realization would completely eradicate every feeling of inferiority, insecurity and rejection we've ever felt.  Because it would no longer matter that we do not measure up to someone's perception of what is acceptable, or that a person we admire has rejected us when Almighty God - the One who literally holds our next second in His very grasp - adopts, accepts, and loves us!"
While I never want to shatter my sons' admiration and trust in me, I know I am human.
I know there will be times that I will fail them, even offend them.  But, I sincerely hope that they will always know that I love them, accept them, and validate them.  I hope that no matter what happens in their lives, they will always know that they have our approval!
Because I never want to destroy that fragile trust.

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