Today I was holding my sweet little 8 months old niece Carrie. Every time I see her I swear she's gotten bigger, or has come up with a different adorable facial expression. She's changing everyday. As I held her she was warm and cuddly, perfect and innocent..(I'm sure my sister would beg to differ on that last one. haha.)
I kinda chuckled to myself as I watched my mom trying to get her to say "mama", and it made me think... We all wish babies could stay babies, but yet we encourage her to speak, and to take her first steps. I whispered in Carrie's ear that she needed to stop getting so big, but then I looked over at my other niece, Christy. She's 3, and it felt like just yesterday she was Carrie's size and I was telling her the same thing...to stay a little baby. But today Christy came into the house and said to me, "Hey you!" I told her she looked and acted like a teenager and asked her if she was...Her response was.."No Auntie I'm not teenager, I'm Christy". I of course died laughing and gave her my apologizes for the mis-understanding. I guess what I am saying is, even though we sometimes want things to stay the way they are, nature has a way of constantly changing things. And each change, each new facial expression, each new attempt at a sentence structure is enjoyable along the way. We need growth. We take pictures to remember that "exact moment", we try to freeze time. But the world just keeps spinning, we get older, we grow and we make memories along the way. I guess the same could be said of our spiritual lives. We get to a "comfortable place" and we "freeze time", we stop growing. Don't stop at just saying "mama"...go for the full sentence!!!