Pulling the covers up tight around my daughter’s face the way she likes them. Just her little wide eyes and the very top part of her nose peeking out. Tucking the blankets up and under her feet, making her all snug and cozy. I lean in and whisper to her how thankful I am that she’s mine. Leaning in, I kiss the top of her head as I say a prayer over her. In that moment He whispers to my heart: I want you to lean in to me like you lean in to her.

But leaning is kind of personal. A certain amount of vulnerability comes with it. After all, we don’t tend to lean in to people we don’t know all that well. Or trust all that well.

Leaning often means relying. Which for some of us doesn’t exactly come easily. Relying has to do with trusting. And sometimes we’ve been hurt deep enough that trusting seems more foolish than wise.

But He’s so beyond all our excuses and our hangups. He’s so much bigger than our fears. He takes our everyday moments and uses them to speak to our hearts in a way that we can’t help but hear.

He leans in to us.

He reaches out to us.

He bends down and pulls the cover up over all our insecurities and fears. He whispers words of love. And by leaning in to us, he breathes life into us.

That’s why he wants us to lean into Him. He wants us to hear those whispers. Those just barely audible moments when something incredible is said. done. created.

In us. to us. through us.

The same way our children find comfort when we lean in to them, we can find comfort as we learn to lean in to Him.

Maybe He’s got something he wants to share with you and all you need to do to hear Him is shift your body a bit closer and…lean in. 

“For anyone out there who doesn’t know where you’re going,

anyone groping in the dark, Here’s what: Trust in God.  Lean on your God!”

Isaiah 50:10