What God has taught me through my niece

So right now I'm typing real fast because I have my niece on my lap. She is soo amazing and I'm so glad that God has blessed my sister and her husband with a daughter because I love being an aunt. I get to spoil my niece and love a lot. In reality, she is more of a little sister because we are only fourteen years apart and for the most part I love it. Sometimes she can be a little bit out of hand, but that's kids right? I love watching Charity learn new words, and develop abilities to do new things. She's such a joy!!!! Anyways, I'm also glad that God let my sister have a baby because I've had to babysit, on more than one occassion, and it has shown me that even though kids are great, they are way too much for a 16 year old girl to handle on her own. So I don't plan on having any kids till I'm married. That sounds funny, but it's true! Anyways, I also think that God has given babies and toddlers the wonderful ability of cheering people up. Seriously! If I'm in a bad mood or just having a bad day, and Charity comes around I am encouraged by her sense of "carefreeness". (If that is such a word) Plus, kids trust you with everything, because they don't know any different. Like if Charity gets a cut or gets hurt all I have to do is kiss it to make it better, usually. Oh and they love to walk in your shoes too!!!

I compare that to God a lot. I should be just as trusting and relying on God as a Charity is to me. Doesn't God say to have the faith of a child? Plus, we should be wanting to always walk in Jesus shoes. Maybe not literally but still we should want to be more like God every day. We can even take our problems to God to fix. We don't have to carry them around and let them burden us to the point of hitting rock bottom. It's just not worth it. What I learn the most from Charity is that I should be excited to be his child. I should be telling everyone and not be emabarrased about being in God's family. Plus, when Charity is away from her mother, she cries. Do you and I cry when we are away from God? Do we hate it when we are separated for a point of time? And when we sin, and our relationship with God isn't what it usually is, do we not like it? Most of the time we don't notice and are oblivious to the fact that our relationship with God is falling to pieces. Charity also loves to stay close to people. Do we love to stay close with God? Most people have good intentions and try to stay close to God, but then they mess up and get frusterated. I know that that is an area to work on in my life, what about you?

So I'm going to stop now because I'm getting my hair brushed, even though it is up in a pony tail, and it kinda' hurts... Lol! Plus she's sitting on my shoulders!!!!!! Which makes it very difficult to type.