Life is like pacifiers

I don't know about your house, but in mine pacifiers are either every where or no where.  Lydia only takes a pacifier when she is tired and once she is asleep she spits it out.  Now where that pacifier lands is beyond me.  I may see it land somewhere, but those suckers bounce.  I don't mean they bounce just a couple inches away....they bounce to the other side of the room!  Usually way under the book shelf, or crib..you know where it takes you forever to retrieve it.  Anyway, pacifiers are either every where and I know that I can easily grab one when Lydia is ready for a nap or melting down, or they are just no where to be seen and I have 2.5 seconds to find one, clean it, and get it into Lydia's mouth or we are in total melt down mode for the next half hour. 

Yesterday was one of those days...I couldn't find a paci anywhere!  I finally found one and that thing stayed with me the whole day!  I knew where it was and I was not about to let it out of my sight!  This morning on the other hand there were pacis everywhere!  I mean where did these things come from?  They certainly were not on the counter yesterday, or in Lydia's car seat, or in her bed.  I am pretty sure there are paci elves that take them just to play mean tricks on this tired momma.  Where ever they came from I was so thankful that just about every room I went into I found another paci!  I now have sanitized pacis in a container on my counter :)  Hopefully they stay there where I can find them tomorrow! 

This whole pacifier concept got me thinking this morning.  Our life right now is kinda like the pacifier game we often play.  Some times it feels like we have nothing and are just barley hanging on, and out of the blue we have a bunch!  It is such a sweet reminder that we don't need to worry about what we have, want, or need.  The Lord has never left us needing anything!  We are abundantly blessed by sweet friends and family that encourage us through hard days and love on our sweet girls.  And moments like those fill us up in a way no amount of money or material things ever could. 


Matthew 6:25-34
²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?
²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.