They're Weird, But They Can Still Teach us Plenty

The above title refers to babies.

Some of you may already know, but for those who don't, I basically have no idea how to interact with very small children, particularly infants. They seem extremely squishy, yet fragile. Apparently they have some spot on their head that actually doesn't have anything covering it? As in they don't have a complete skull? This seems odd. Let me clarify, it's not that I think I'm inherently above learning how to interact with small children, it's just I've never really had the opportunity. I'm an only child, so no baby siblings, and I haven't been there when my friends have had kids, something which kind of bums me out. All that to say, I find babies somewhat confusing.

In particular, the behavior of babies is just...odd. An example. During a meeting today, I noticed that Ramona Anderson (a staff member here at CCF) had her baby with her during an interview. One action of baby Faye in particular intrigued me. Everything Faye touched immediately went into here mouth. E–ver–y–thing. The object then underwent an extremely rapid interrogation, in which each item was determined to not be something that belonged in Faye's mouth. Her reaction? She through it on the ground. She completely and totally rejected it.

At first, I just wrote this behavior off as somewhat odd. Then God did one of those cool things where He reminds me that He can speak to me through just about anything. The question I'm asking now when I think on behavior like Faye's: Why don't I do that?

As adults, I feel like we go through a similar process as infants, we just aren't nearly as good at it. We take things, we examine them, but unlike Faye, when we find out something isn't beneficial for us, we don't get rid of it. Be it a bad relationship, a substance we know isn't good for us, an obsession with a lie this culture is telling us about who we should be, what have you, we hold onto it. We let it sit there in our mouth, as disgusting as it is, as wrong for us as we know it is, and we do absolutely nothing.

Why?











With His love and grace,

Taylor