Look

"Hey mom!"

"Look at me! Look at me!"

I heard this familiar refrain many times when my sons were growing up. Always, always this phrase was shouted, repeated (at least twice) and full of enthusiasm, joy, and most always with pride. They cried out, "Look at me!"when they made goofy faces or when they accomplished something that they hadn't done before:

• riding a bike unassisted for the first time
• shouting from atop an eight foot high mound of snow that they managed to scale on their own
• doing some "trick" from the jungle gym

"Look at me! Look at me!"

I think, in the same way, God is calling out to us, but God beckons instead, "Look to me! Look to me!" because by looking to God, we will find our way when we get lost in this crazy "look at me" kind of world.