Playing in the dirt....

I currently have a lot of summer goals, some of which I will probably never get to.... But I quit blogging during spring semester due to the overwhelming load of school work that was more than enough to handle at the time. So it is my goal to document this summer through the life of sweet Clay. 

I have enjoyed more than anything my time with him already in the (almost) two weeks that I have been home. He LOVES outside. Anything outside. He can be covered in dirt, drenched in sweat and red in the face but you will never hear him say anything about going inside. He is also "all boy" and loves his tractors and trucks. Put the two things (outside and his tractor/truck) together and you have an emmensly tickled toddler. 

So, before he discovered his love for the pool (before I let him in so I wouldn't freeze), we would go outside and play in the dirt with his truck. He is so smart and knows that the tailgate on the truck is made to carry things, so in his mind, it needed to carry dirt. His little hands would dig up the dirt and try so hard to make it to the back of the truck, only to drop almost all of the dirt in the journey there. In the meantime, I would showed him how to scoop the dirt in an old bottle and then he would proceed to try that only to go back to using his hands..

When he finally caught on that his method wouldn't work, he continuously called out for help from me to show him the way of how to make it work with the bottle... 

"Mama, mama... Dirt," he would say. 

I learned two things from Clay that day as I watched him try his hardest to move the dirt... 

1) Perseverance. We are told over and over to never give up, to place our faith and hope in something way bigger than ourselves and then fight the good fight by continuously doing good. Bless his heart, he fought in the smallest way to get that dirt in the back of his truck. 

2) Dependence. In this crazy world, on the midst of trying to do good... things get tough and unmanageable for us. We are promised by God himself that he will never leave or forsake us, that we must just call out His name and He will be there. He longs for us to be dependent on Him as Clay was dependent on me to show him how to transport the dirt from the ground to the truck. 

Can't wait to continue learning from precious Clay Ellis this summer!