OK, So my son does not get the classic carousel ride…

Here is how it went.  We were having a fun family day at a Smithsonian Sponsored American Folk Festival (Sounds lame, but actually very non-folksy…) when dad (Me)  sees a carousel (horses and all)  going round and around in the distance and thinks, “Man, I bet Isaac would love to ride on that!” 

I stand in line with my happy baby boy only to find that when we get on the ride, Isaac is not as thrilled as dad was to be on this quite confusing activity.

I get him strapped in on his very own stallion of a horse (sweet one), and notice where there is normally a very happy little smirk, I see a very inquisitive little look across his mug…  He is of course wondering what Dad has gotten him into this time.

As the corousel begins to turn around and the stallion he is riding begins to bob up and down, I notice that he is not thrilled at all (Not sad or in pain…) yet instead there is a look of total confusion of why we would have waited so long in order to sit on a fake hourse and bob up and down while going in a circle over and over and over to music that, well lets face it, is very much to be desired?

At first I thought, “what gives, this is the carousel?”  But then I got it, “Who wants to be stuck going round and round in a circle when there is so many other things to see and do???”

Ever feel like you are going in circles in life?  Working as hard as you can, and still you are stuck…  or better yet, we get going in a certain direction, get comfortable, and then as if we have been caught off guard and all of the sudden we find ourselves stuck going round and around in a circle, stuck, in some area of our life, or even worse our whole life.   The carousel of life…  Going around and around, listening to the same old tune, bobbing up and down… 

It is no way to spend our precious days that God has given us, and I am convinced that He does not want us to live life like this for any length of time… 

Even though the enemy wants us to stay on the carousel, God wants us to be moving forward towards His perfect and fulfilling plan for our lives…

John 10:10 states it best, “thief (enemy) does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that they (us) may have life, and that they (us) may have it more abundantly!

With that said, Isaac and I got off the carousel… and on with our lives…

Keep moving forward,

David & Isaac…