Lions and Impossibles

One Sunday during church, I had my son curled up on my lap. Attempting to maintain reverence during the sacrament, I was showing him pictures of the Savior that I had put in a little "quiet book." We came to a Greg Olsen picture of the Savior holding a sheep. I whispered in my boy's ear that we are like the sheep and that Jesus will hold us and take care of us too. My boy furrowed his eyebrows and said "But I am not a sheep, I am a lion." Then, in the silence of the chapel he let out a blood-curdling roar.

A few weeks later, for morning devotional, my kids and I were reading in the illustrated version of the New Testament, My daughter asked "Is this a story about Jesus and His impossibles?" I'm sure the Savior smiled at this description of His apostles.

The longer I live, the more I see the truth of the statement "it takes all kinds." It is good to know, that in the fold of God there is a place for lions and impossibles alike. I am so grateful for the lions in my life. I am so thankful for the people who have been patient with me while I have been an "impossible."

We live in a world that rarely celebrates deviations from the norm., the popular or the stylish. How good to know that there is a place and a purpose for every individual and every quirky characteristic. God has a place and a mission prepared for us, be we lions or impossibles or anything in between.