I am not sure if you all have experienced a similar trend that I have while playing the common childhood game, hide and seek, but what always happens to me is somehow when someone says, “Ready or not here I come”, all the liquid in my body always decides it needs to leave my body right when I am indeed ready in the most intricate hiding place.

And this isn’t just a one time experience that I can be like, “oh well that was just a fluke”. No. I am saying that EVERY TIME I play this game my bladder’s alarm clock goes off. There was a particularly bad game where this happened that beats out the other times due to the fact it ended with my pants being a little darker than when we started and a quick call to my mom to pick me up from a friends.

Not what you want.

The irony of that time was that my “clever” hiding place that I thought no one would find me in was behind the door to the bathroom. Yep. So I just stood there like someone who is thirsty and dehydrated watching people get drinks from one of those machines in Noodles and Company where you select literally any drink in the universe and not getting one for themselves.

Now I don't know if this is a common trend or if it is just another strange thing about myself (could be, taking in the odds from my entire life) but I do think that it has probably happened to you in another way. I believe everyone has been in a situation where they have been in pain or discomfort and in front of them lies the solution to relieve it. Though, instead of actually relieving it we stand behind the bathroom door, hiding and torture ourselves by holding ourselves back. For me, it was because I didn't want to lose and then have to be the seeker. In other times it could be that the solution to your pain isn't always an easy option or maybe your friends wouldn't like that option, whatever the reason is it results in the same gut reaction, hide.

In a more constant situation in my life, this idea lies in my relationship with God. I mean how many times have I needed help and relief and God has just been there right in front of me? Definitely more than I can count on my fingers and toes. And despite that fact I just sit there behind the door, waiting for another( aka easier) way. Update God is the easiest way - he loves us if you did not already know, just putting that out there. I hide because I do not want to seem weak, or not fit in with everyone, or to not face the reality of God's love. Silly, I know.

But, here is the thing, I definitely could have peed during that game (and not through my pants). Being the seeker really would not have affected what I would have for dinner that night or what college I was going to pick or if I will ever be president one day. At the time though, it seemed like it would life or death. But accepting God's help DOES change those things. You become a follower in His plan for you and more importantly a child who has found their father.

He is not going to judge you for the uncomfort or sin you are currently facing. I mean Adam and Eve even played a little hide and seek back in the garden and God knew why they were hiding. Though, instead of being mad or just walking away he calls out, "Where are you?".

God's love is the greatest relief and DOES sit in front of us like a toilet when we are hiding in the bathroom for hide and seek. So go to the bathroom because peeing your pants is just damp and smelly.