A day of putt-putt golf behind them, and now, a plate of spaghetti between them; the eight year old looked up at his father and with the help of sweeping arm motions he told him: “Dad, you are the best dad in the whole world. (Large emphatic arm swings) That’s the one thing I am sure of. There is no one in the world who has a dad as good as you.” His father beamed telling this story, and how could he not? Affection, unabashed, gushing affection from a busy child does not come often. Even less as they get older. The love is there but the distraction of a day and all that lies before them sometimes keeps them from saying: “Thank you” and “I love you.”
How often do we push our plate of busyness away and look up at our Father and tell Him how much we love Him? With emphatic sweeping statements of affection do we speak our love to Him? Or is it too often the only time we give Him is when we are drifting off to sleep or over dinner with food halfway to our mouths?
Try it tonight. Push that busyness aside and sit with Him. Gush over His love and watch how He beams!
