Bear Hunt

“We’re going on a bear hunt. 

We’re going to catch a big one.

What a beautiful day. We’re not scared!”

 

As Isaac and I sat on the couch together chanting these words from one of his favorite books, I was

struck with a great truth that was found in this classic children’s story. As the story goes the family

encounters obstacle after obstacle on their bear hunting journey. Each time they come to a new

obstacle they chant:

“we can’t go over it.

We can’t go under it.

We’ve got to go through it!”

 

As we read these words together Isaac likes to scream the last line and point forward with his hand as though he were the captain of a ship. Every time he does I pray that God will make this the disposition of his heart. As we journey in this life of faith that he would with bold confidence set his face toward the trials ahead and be willing to go through them. That as he grows as a man that he would lead his future family in this way, trusting that as he endures the trials ahead that there is one that goes with him. And even though Isaac may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, he will fear no evil, for he knows who goes with him.