Child-like
hello,
How are you? I've missed you. We had a power surge at home and the phone lines...and computer lines have been out and then I went to SanAntonio...so Howdy.
On the way down 281 we went to a store with the largest wooden rocker! It was about three stories high. It was a great way to get attention and have people stop at their store. I guess it had been featured in Southern Living a couple of months ago. Anyway they were having pictures taken of the staff sitting up on the rocker looking like they were about a year old in proportion to the rocker. What a sight.
Then later I was trying to get the smushed bugs off the windsheld of the van and it's high and tall and I felt like a little child reaching up to do a task and not quite being big enough to finish it. It was funny.
I sat down at a table at the conference and the chair that I was given was very short and the table came almost up to my chin, We all laughed...but isn't that like a child feels some times?
I heard once there is a museum in England, somewhere, that is built so adults get to reexperience being little. Chairs, forks, plates, glasses, all are made to adult size and you are made to feel like you are three. Nothing fits.
What would it be like if we remembered what it was to be child-size. To have things not work for us? Then think what about those who have to fit into a row when their wheelchair dosn't quite fit. Then think about those who have to fit into the rows in the airplane and their legs are too long.
God made us all to fit...into the reign of God and Jesus loved an accepted us all especially the most vulnerable.
So to say someone is acting child-like should be a good thing. A blessing... because we don't fit in the 'adult' word that name-calls, and separates, and shuts-out, and eliminates and votes off the island. Nope we love one another.
God abide
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
How are you? I've missed you. We had a power surge at home and the phone lines...and computer lines have been out and then I went to SanAntonio...so Howdy.
On the way down 281 we went to a store with the largest wooden rocker! It was about three stories high. It was a great way to get attention and have people stop at their store. I guess it had been featured in Southern Living a couple of months ago. Anyway they were having pictures taken of the staff sitting up on the rocker looking like they were about a year old in proportion to the rocker. What a sight.
Then later I was trying to get the smushed bugs off the windsheld of the van and it's high and tall and I felt like a little child reaching up to do a task and not quite being big enough to finish it. It was funny.
I sat down at a table at the conference and the chair that I was given was very short and the table came almost up to my chin, We all laughed...but isn't that like a child feels some times?
I heard once there is a museum in England, somewhere, that is built so adults get to reexperience being little. Chairs, forks, plates, glasses, all are made to adult size and you are made to feel like you are three. Nothing fits.
What would it be like if we remembered what it was to be child-size. To have things not work for us? Then think what about those who have to fit into a row when their wheelchair dosn't quite fit. Then think about those who have to fit into the rows in the airplane and their legs are too long.
God made us all to fit...into the reign of God and Jesus loved an accepted us all especially the most vulnerable.
So to say someone is acting child-like should be a good thing. A blessing... because we don't fit in the 'adult' word that name-calls, and separates, and shuts-out, and eliminates and votes off the island. Nope we love one another.
God abide
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
posted by Bobbie Giltz McGarey at
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