Faith and strange places.

Lots of things happening lately. Lots of things in strange places. Places I’ve never been before.

Despite your undying efforts to put on your fabulous shoes, you sometimes you find yourself standing where you’d never thought you be standing.

So you stand. And you think. And you wonder how and why. And you muster your faith. Because you know it’s there. It’s always been there. But suddenly you feel like you need to touch it… but you can’t. But you want to. You need to. (But you can’t. Because you can’t touch faith. You just feel it.)

So you take your most precious people on a small adventure… to touch, to look… for something…

To climb to the highest heights in an effort to get closer to what we know and feel is above us all…

To push and pull with all our tiny mighty might and forcefully will our faith to come find us… because we need it. Now.

And then we tire. And we wonder and think. And wonder some more. So we see a bench and decide to sit down. We look down. And our eyes water and weep right there in middle of the most busy place with bustling children. Because it is there. On the bench. Waiting for us in a most serene way. Quietly sneaking up on us.

FAITH. Just when we least expect it. There to smile at us, comfort us and give us peace just by being there. (On the bench, just like that. I gasped when I sat down.) Someone had left it there. Someone had lost it there. Someone had put it there. All for me to find… as it was meant to find me.

In that moment, I knew that everything would be a-okay.

Instead of searching and running and looking and chasing, I just needed to sit to rest so that faith could find me… could find us. So that it could remind me (all of us) to enjoy the joys that should be enjoyed. Because today is the present and that makes it a gift. Big blue building blocks and all.

With love. And hope. And strength. And faith.

All photos included in this post were taken during a day of play at Pasadena’s Kidspace Museum. This is not a sponsored post, but is a most personal post of love, hope, strength… and faith.