Absolutely love this picture from April at listening after dark. This is a picture of her being thrown into the air by her dad. So often when we think of God as a parental figure (almost always father, but sometimes mother) we have an image of a child wrapped up in God’s arms. Or maybe God is carrying us on God’s shoulders (e.g. Footprints). Do we think about God playing with us? God engaging in joyful, relaxed, life-giving fun with us? When we trust God, and allow God to throw us around, throw us up into the air…I think that’s a beautiful thing.
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I LOVE that picture! You are right - I often think of God as comforter, protector, strength, etc., and that’s great, but how fun to think of God as a playful Father. That makes me smile. :-)
You’re good, Cleave. Reeeal good.
God as Father. I just wrote some thoughts about that in my CPM forms. It is an intimate way to describe God, indeed. April’s post is a good reminder of the tender strength of God as Father.
And I didn’t mean to focus so much on the idea of God as Father. I’m still not sure what to think about that issue - Josh, maybe you should post some thoughts on your blog re: what you wrote for CPM. God as Father. God as Mother. Hmmm.
Cleave,
Thanks for taking that and running with it. I like.