The little ice cooler

     My brother John and I were reminiscing today about our childhood memories. So many good ones! Today, I told him I had the "little ice cooler". His eyes got big and exclaimed, "Wow! You do!?" He probably thought it got thrown out with the other "stuff" my mother was forced to get rid of when she moved in with my little sister as she got too old to take care of herself. The little ice cooler looked huge to us all because of our size and age. Filled with cold cans of a variety of Shasta pop and ice, that was always a necessity for family picnics or Navy Fourth of July parties. This little ice cooler held more than sodas. It has held memories that will never be forgotten. My father, being a 26-year Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, was always in charge of the cutting of the potatoes for potato salad that my mother faithfully made for every event and also for stocking that little ice cooler with Root beers, Orange, Cola and 7UP. Every time I saw that little ice cooler my heart would pound with excitement at the thought of soon to be fun. 

     As I have grown to adulthood, I recall seeing that "big" ice cooler which looked so huge to my child eyes, now become so "little" in reality's eyes . So small from the way I remembered it. It made me smile but yet a little sad to think of how things look when the innocence of a child is lost when we grow up. 

     God appears so big now in my eyes. The Great and powerful God that I prayed to when so small, to the time I have grown tall, has never changed in His appearance in my soul. It was only me that was little and now, still, when I think of our God, I am still small but He has grown in size. The Love He has shown me has intensified 100 times and His Faithfulness has filled me to a sweltering million. 

     I want to be His "little ice cooler". I want to remain small so He will always be big. A King on a Throne in Heaven, always greeting me as His little child, awaiting my Father with happiness and the thrill of adventure as I surrender my will to His.