Ever watch a kid play with bubbles? We have spent hours playing with balloons with the kids -- my children receive more joy from an hour with a balloon than I get from a week. There seems to be an abundance of joy and laughter that kids are tapped into that we forget -- they can find such deep satisfaction at times.
As adults, this is easy to forget. Responsibility can weigh heavily upon us, and joy often seems elusive. Think of all the products and services in the world that promise joy, when a child would wonder why we can't find it in a balloon.
The Kingdom of God is everything we ever need and more. God will care for us, tending to our every need. God invites us to relax into that, to delight in that, to receive it with joy. May we learn from our children and find delight in what God offers us. May there be joy in the depths of our hearts.
As G.K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy:
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
No comments:
Post a Comment