One of the books that has been instrumental in our parenting of Jackson and Anna Sloan is Dan Allender’s book, How Children Raise Parents. If you are a parent of children and you haven’t read this book, you owe it to yourself to read it. It’s amazing to reflect on all the things my kids have taught me not only about being a parent but also about being a child of God. One of the things that my kids have taught me that is reflected in God’s nature is the pure joy He has and takes in the simplest things of creation. It makes me think of what G. K. Chesterton said in his book Orthodoxy.
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. 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.” (G. K. Chesteron, Orthodoxy)
May we have the courage and the wherewithal to glory in the simplest things in our day knowing that our heavenly Father does.
brett eubank | unfinished 