The other day, my daughter dumped out half a box of cocoa puffs all over the floor, table, and highchair. She was sitting in the high chair, picking up and eating pieces of cereal from around her legs and on the table as I swept the cereal on the floor into a dust pan and put it in the garbage. A few times, she went to grab a cocoa puff to eat it, but would drop it on the floor. She'd look down at the one single cocoa puff, among all the others on the floor, and point, saying "UH-OH!" I was just thinking, there's like hundreds of these on the floor, and about a hundred up within her reach...why is she worried about dropping ONE?! That one cocoa puff would attract a full 20 seconds of her attention before she'd move on.
As I continued working, I suddenly thought of some parallels between this experience and the way Christ sees His children. There are so many of us; yet if one falls astray, He has so much care and concern for the one that He'll "leave the ninety and nine" to rescue the one. There are tons of us who have fallen astray, and tons who are on the path Christ has laid out for us. So it may seem insignificant if just ONE person falls from the right path. But it is not insignificant. Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father love us individually and unconditionally. They care about the ONE and want what's best for the ONE. Each one.
I was sitting on the floor with the dirty cocoa puffs and my daughter was sitting in her high chair, with all the clean cocoa puffs. I had to look upward to see her. I imagined the table legs around me to be pillars, and the cocoa puffs, fallen people. With so many, I'd think one little cocoa puff falling would go practically unnoticed. And really, a piece of cereal isn't a big deal, but I'm glad my little girl was so interested in it that it gave me a little spiritual reminder. It just seems kind of amazing, that with all the people that are, were, and will be, in this world and others, ONE person can have the love, care, concern, and attention of our Savior and Heavenly Father.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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