I Want Funny!!!
We recently celebrated the 10th
anniversary of adopting our daughter from
As we were going through the mounds of
paperwork (yes, I mean mounds!), I prayed for the kind of daughter I wanted. I
prayed that she would be sensitive, spiritual, smart, tenderhearted, and
probably the most important-FUNNY!! In order to survive our family, it was
imperative that she have a sense of humor.
But when I first got her, she didn’t even
smile. No matter what we did: tickle, coo at her, and bounce her
around-nothing, not one smile. I thought we may be in for some tough times if
we had this serious little girl to contend with. I even asked God what was up with this-I SAID
I WANTED FUNNY!!! I know God can do funny, I know He has a sense of humor!
Finally when she was about five months
old, she cracked a smile, I thought I would faint! And then she began to
laugh....and laugh.....and laugh. She would not just laugh when we were
entertaining her, she would lie in her crib and laugh hysterically when no one
was even around. She would sit in the middle of the floor and crack up laughing
at nothing (I used to say she had funny angels!). What was this? Did God answer
my prayer? Is my daughter not going to be the serious little one I thought she
would be? Even today, at age ten, she keeps my family in stitches, once she
started, she never stopped.
The other day she asked me why she had to
love people that annoyed her, I explained that the Bible says to love EVERYONE,
and since the Bible says it, we have to listen. She paused for a moment and
then said, “Then I want the erasable Bible.” She had heard a commercial on our
Christian radio station; she didn’t realize the commercial was not serious.
This has made me realize something about
God; He cares about every detail of our lives, even the little stuff. So often
we ask Him for the big stuff, not understanding that He cares about every part
of our life, every detail.
He answered my prayer about being a
parent, that gift just came wrapped in a different package, but the gift itself
was truly every thing I asked for...and then some. She is a blessing beyond what
I could ever have imagined, and daily I thank God for her very being, and
wonder what I did to be so lucky. Every detail, just ask, if it is important to
you, then it is important to God. James 1:17 says, “Every good and perfect gift
is from above, coming down from the Father of Heavenly lights, who does not
change like shifting shadows.”
