Tag: games

A while back, there was the sweetest post going around social media featuring a little girl, weeping and overwhelmed at the prospect of going to her soccer game  “unprepared”. Maybe you’ve seen it. As the video progresses, her mother patiently fleshes out the reason behind her sadness and tears, and we come to learn that she is so upset simply because she doesn’t understand the meaning of, “make-up game”. In her innocence and limited exposure to the term, “make-up”, she was distraught over believing with her whole self that she needed to wear make-up to her “make-up game”. It both made me smile and want to reach through the screen to comfort her! 

As adults, we can watch something like that and be relieved knowing that her sadness was all for naught. But for her, she was all in with her feelings, truly believing she didn’t have what she needed. From her perspective, she would be showing up to her game unprepared and fearful of the consequences of doing so. 

But don’t we do that even as adults? Many times, as we move through life, we see and respond to it through inaccuracies. Just like the little one I mentioned above was overwrought with emotion, we too, can spend a lot of time, energy, and tears impacted and reacting to things that just aren’t true. It may be because of beliefs we’ve held since childhood, or behaviors that we saw modeled for us as we were coming up. We might have misinformation that we haven’t tested for ourselves yet, or even be misled for a season by those we thought were trustworthy. And sometimes it’s just simply, as with the little girl, we have not developed the maturity or capacity to understand yet.

In all of the stories we tell ourselves, it’s God the Father who wants to be the loving parent, patiently relieving us from unnecessary sadness and anxiety. He sees us in our distress, despairing over things he knows may feel very real, but are not. He invites us to take a deep breath, relinquish the misperceptions we’ve come to believe, and allow him to show us our circumstances from his perspective. He presents the truths behind any ideas or narratives we have been telling ourselves or hearing about from others, and is the only one that can be trusted to give us accurate information one hundred percent of the time. God’s perspective, both as the Creator of this world and as our Father, equals true reality. When we come to understand things are they truly are, and align ourselves with his version of our circumstances, we are best positioned to handle whatever we may be facing.

If you want to smile today, watch the video of the little girl distraught about having to show up at her “make-up game” without make-up. Try and see yourself through the eyes of the parent encouraging her little one to believe what is true, and then remember how much God wants to do the same for you and I. Seeing our lives through the eyes of our Father in Heaven really is a game changer.