I awoke at 6 am and crept downstairs to steal some time away with God before I started what was set to be a busy day. I took time to pray, to read, to be still and seek… How could I miss this time, immersing myself in the truth that I so desperately need? I asked God to speak directly and specifically to me with words for the day ahead.
An hour later as I ran upstairs to shower and get ready for the day, I was met by my son. My son is 7 and he loves lego. I began talking to my husband about ideas that had been brewing in my mind. Our son, who was listening, kept interjecting with facts about his beloved lego ‘guys’. I later discovered that he had created a lego ‘guy’ for each member of our family. He continued to follow me into the bedroom and tell me about his lego guys. He had five of them, “This one is you Mummy,” he started…
I have to admit that at this exact moment I was not thinking how much I wanted to listen to him tell me about his lego guy who he felt resembled me… The lego figures always look a little unappealing to me, and I hadn’t yet seen one that I wanted to look like… and on top of that I felt like there was already so much whirling in my head that I was not sure how much information about a lego figure resembling myself, Daddy, our daughter, our nanny, or our son I could digest. But I made the decision to listen to what he had to say and value what was important to him. So I said, “Tell me,” and he began… “Mummy, this guy is you. He shoots light bulbs… look… he brings light into dark places…”
Suddenly he had my full attention. It was like this depiction of me as a little odd looking lego guy was actually God answering my prayer and speaking to me, through my son, about how He saw me. At that moment I was encouraged and reminded about who God made me to be; because the specific skill this lego guy had was one that I have been given encouraging words about over the years.
Thinking about it more, I was reminded that light bulbs represent ideas… vision… And, the phrase my son used was the phrase that has often kept me going with this vision for Pure Creative Arts (the organisation I founded). When I was the closest I had ever been to giving up a few years ago – I asked God to show me what to do. At that moment I was reminded – in a car, in the UK on the M6 between Birmingham and Warsaw – that out of the darkness He had called me into His incredible light… and that calling others out of the darkness and giving them space to come into the light was what beats and pulses through the heart of Pure.
“As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.” – 1 Peter 2:9
So in the midst of this ordinary morning, God had spoken through my son to remind me how He sees me – with my light bulb shooter. That the ideas, the vision He has given me is His and is powerful and, as my son says, through this vision God brings light into the darkness.
And why was this so particularly significant to me? And why am I sharing this? Because just two weeks before, I realised that God had begun to show me in fresh ways how He sees me. I am going to share more on this in my next blog…
My son then went on (in more detail than I will share here) to tell me about how Daddy’s lego guy has his walkie talkie which he uses to communicate with us and tell us where to go, and how his sister’s guy opens up tight spaces that are hard to get into, and how our nanny’s guy helps us find hidden treasure, and finally how his guy uses his camera to see almost invisible things up close. You see, this post is not just about what is special about me. We all are created uniquely and have something different to bring. My son’s depiction of these lego guys that represented each of us shows how we all have unique skills to bring. We need each other to use those skills and to remember who we are so we can all take our place and glimpse our part in something bigger than ourselves.
Who has God made you to be? What lego guy would you be? What does it look like for you to take your place?