Life from Little D’s perspective.
He’s had plenty of adventure already in his few short years of life, and the adventure is definitely not about to end! So far, he has officially moved five times, besides many in-between stays and little moves while visiting or staying with different people during our travels. This includes the month we spent in São Paulo for his heart surgery when he was a year old.
D has never been overly shy, thankfully, and now he LOVES people. He likes to make them laugh. If someone laughs at something he says or does, he will keep doing it so they’ll keep laughing. We’re also glad that to him, people are people. He doesn’t care what a person looks like or how they smell. Sometimes his childlike authenticity and simplicity teaches us a thing or two.
For now, D is ecstatic when we tell him we’re going to go in the boat or on a plane. Since our little town has few vehicles and most people use motorbikes or bicycles, on our last trip to the big city he thoroughly enjoyed every taxi ride. After a few such rides, he wanted to get in every car that went by!
We want him to learn that our life is not all about adventure though. It’s about knowing God and helping others know Him too. The other day before his nap, he surprised me by asking me to pray with him using his one little word he says for “pray” (the Portuguese “amem” for the “amen” at the end). What joy to a mother’s heart! I hadn’t made it a habit before, only occasionally praying with him before he slept, but I am definitely going to make it a habit now. We hope this habit of praying will turn into a true relationship with the Lord, with D wanting to love God because God first loved him. We hope he sees our lives reflecting God’s love and our desire for people to know Him, and we hope he will want people to know God too. We're not going to deny it though, oftentimes going to the people who need to know Jesus does include some adventure along the way!