This time was no different. While fixing us a snack, she comes in and begins to chat with me and to sum it all up, she had a desire to be able to touch the ceiling. As I go to pick her up, she panics and begins to whimper. I put her down and ask her if she trusts me. She says yes. I tell her I would never drop her and she says, "I Know."
I walk back into the kitchen and she comes back and tells me she's ready and after waiting a few minutes, we try again. This time I have her walk her hands up the wall so she can see how obtainable her goal is. Three palms from the top, she cries out for me to bring her back down and tells me she's afraid. I bring her back down slowly and put her on the couch in front of me.
"Brailyn, do you trust me?"
"Yes."
"Brailyn, have I ever dropped you?"
"No."
"Don't you know that I would never do anything to hurt you or let you get hurt?" And as I ask this last question, I can hear the heart of God. I hear God asking me the same things. Her answer. The same as mine. I know.
After getting her to say, I can touch the ceiling. I will touch the ceiling. I am going to touch the ceiling. My munchkins walks her hands up the wall and touched the ceiling.
God so often is trying to pry us from our position of paralyzing fear and move us past a confession of I can to I am. We have to know that God is constantly whispering to us "I'll never let go." Move past desiring to do the will of God to living and walking out the will of God. The joy of purpose fulfilled is far greater than potential paralyzed.
