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Connections...
October 8, 2000
"'They are no longer two but one flesh& '"
"Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."
Mark 10:2-16
My resignation
I hereby tender my resignation as an adult.
I have decided to accept the responsibilities of an eight-year-old once again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks.
I want to think that M&M's are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friend on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple.
When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you. You knew what you didn't know, and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that make you worried or upset.
I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible.
I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, or how to survive doctors' bills, more days in the month than money in the bank, gossip, illness and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of hugs, smiles, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So, here is my checkbook, car keys, credit cards, home equity loans and mortgage.
I am officially resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss it further, you have to catch me first, 'cause--Tag! You're it!
CONNECTION: As we get older, we yearn to return to the simpler, less complicated days of our childhoods, to recapture that sense of wonder at how remarkable and good our world is and that inquisitiveness as to why things cannot be right and good for everyone. It is that child-like simplicity and integrity of faith that Jesus calls his disciples to embrace for the sake of God's reign, that simple, uncomplicated way of looking at life that deflates the most convoluted adult "logic" and the intricacies of "conventional wisdom." May we accept the reign of God with the simple, uncomplicated and unencumbered child-like faith that seeks only what is good and just for all God's children..v
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