HE NEVER GETS OVER US

Psalm 139:2 "..He knows when I lie down to sleep and when I rise to wake"

I can't think of the last time I watched my kids while they slept.  My oldest is now 13, my middle is 11, and my youngest is 7.  They're growing up so fast.
I remember watching all three of them at different times when they were babies.  I was so smitten with them..I would just sit in amazement at how perfect and peaceful they were as they slept.  I was always wonderstruck when I would see them smile in their sleep and watch their eye movement beneath their little eyelids indicating that they were dreaming.  What could they possibly be dreaming about after only a few weeks or months on this earth?  Is it possible that they could remember the face of their Maker as He was smiling and cooing over them as He made them?  I'm pretty sure they were not smiling over the memories of their first experience of arriving on this earth.

I'm not sure why but I don't ever take the time to watch them any more.  I'm certainly not 'over it' or, by any stretch, less in love with them than I've ever been.  I guess it's just the nature of imperfect human love.  The 'shine' wears off and we stop taking note of the little miraculous details that happen daily in their growth and development.

I love the passage in Psalm 139 because it reminds me that God still watches us when we sleep.  How else would He know when we lie down and when we awake?  God is still absolutely smitten with us.  He never gets over us....ever.