God is Bigger than the Boogie Man...

Tonight was one of those nights.

You know, where the kid doesn't want to sleep and you got a lot done but now you are tired and you know the kid is tired and gosh darn it if only that silly kid would go to sleep...

So you get a warm bottle and then you do the unthinkable. You turn on a show. You search through for a show that you would actually want your kid to watch.

Said kid is 14 months old. Shows help, but don't hold too much attention. (Ok fine, the show is for you, but whatever.)

Tonight we turned on a good old Veggie Tales.

As Junior watched a show he probably shouldn't be watching and Bob and Larry came to his room to sing to him...the words to the song that I've known and heard so many times resonated with me.

God is bigger than the Boogie Man.

God is bigger than the monsters on TV.

When I was little and scared I would go crawl into bed with my Daddy. Always my Daddy. I rarely remember crawling into bed next to my Mom. I would crawl up next to him (maybe crying) and he would wrap his arms around me and I would feel safe. Everything bad would be chased away, just because my Daddy wrapped his arms around. Because he was bigger than anything bad.

Now I'm older. Now I have a kid and another one cooking. Now my husband works later in the evenings and I go to bed with him.

Now my Boogie Monsters have taken on new names, adult names, names like Doubt and Failure and Fear and Debt and Money. Now my fears extend to realizing that if anyone came in this house unwanted, I would die before I let anyone hurt my daughter. Now my fears extend to another human being. Three really.

My boogie monsters are dreams that wake me in the night, scared that I won't carry to term, Scared that this labor won't go as well, scared that I will mess up whatever plans God has for this new baby and for my daughter.

They are giants that stand in front of my eyes. Remind me of the times I lose patience, of the times when I fail my friends, of the times when I didn't do good enough. These are the monsters of adulthood.

Tonight as I rocked my girl and prayed she would fall asleep and listened to vegetables sing about not being afraid, my heart was encouraged.

God is so much bigger than those things. He is so much bigger than Fears and Doubts and Hurts and Failures. He is bigger. And like the tomato said "He's watching out for you and me." Such simple truths told to children, to remind them.

I am a child. I am His child. Sometimes I need silly songs to remind me of things that are true.

I needed this reminder. That God is bigger than the boogie man, that He is bigger than MY boogie men.

So I thought maybe someone else needed to be reminded too.

Maybe you need to know that God is Bigger. So so so much bigger.

And like Junior said, "He's on my team!"