All Things Supercinski

Josiah loves to stand up. He would stand up all day if he could just get himself upright without our help. However, he also thinks it is great fun to fall backward. He likes to do trust-falls. We did not teach him this, he just does it all the time. A few times he has done it while looking at me, knowing that I am not behind him, he just falls backward. It’s not that he can’t stand or doesn’t want to, he just falls. Like this:

I find it amazing how much trust he has in us that we won’t let him fall, except the few times that I wasn’t there (after the second time, he doesn’t stand unless one of us is behind him.) Some might say that he needs to learn to fall, but I disagree. I think his trust in us catching him is a beautiful thing that I’ve been reflecting on all week. The Bible says that God loves me like a father loves his children. Josiah’s trust-falling into our arms is a wonderful picture of how much I can trust my heavenly father implicitly. I pray that I do.

“Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” –Matthew 7:9-11

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