Recently, Heston, our youngest son, was having anxiety at night, right at tuck-in time. As Parents, we kept thinking it was a classic stall tactic.
His voice would travel to the living room from his bedroom, “Mom, Dad, I don't want to grow up”. He had a genuine anxiety about this issue. We brushed it off as normal pre-bedtime fatigue but finally, a couple of weeks later, the issue persisted. About that time, my husband received a small soft blanket from our friends at Life Church an early gift for Christmas.
I was cooking with Heston in the kitchen, and he said, “you know, that blanket is too small for Dad. It would be good for a six-year-old, maybe 7.”
I smiled and turned to him where he was tip-toeing on the stool stirring our dinner, and said, “Or maybe a 7-year-old getting ready to turn 8.”? His eyes lit up as he knew I had caught on. It was at that moment I realized he was having anxiety because his favorite blanket didn’t fit him anymore. He tries to cover his legs, and his feet still stick out. If he covers his toes, his arms are out. It was making him deeply sad at night. We had no idea that was the source of the problem! He just wants to be covered by his favorite thing in the world, his blanket!
I think we all feel this way sometimes. We just want to be covered.
In the book titled Heaven is for real, a 3-year-old child Colton has a near-death out of body experience and sits on Jesus’ lap to be comforted. Of course, this mirrors the place in scripture where Jesus sits with the children, and says that the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.
I don’t want to grow up either. I want to be covered. I want to sit on Jesus’ lap. When we lose our child-like thinking, we lose our coverage. But the good news is as children of God, we don’t have to “grow up”.
When something you find security in is shrinking, or your problem is more significant than your coverage, God has got you covered. Maybe the solution is as easy as Heston’s. You just need to steal your Daddy’s blanket, that’s Jesus.
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