"I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and learned you
have revealed them to the childlike." - Lk. 10:21
How often is it that when we try to understand
something intellectually that we lose the joy of the experience itself? For
example, consider a person hiking at Yosemite. He may concern himself with the
temperature, the distance of the hike, and the types of flora or fauna he may
encounter. Perhaps if he shifted his disposition to feel the warm rays and cool
breeze caressing his skin, to enjoy the playful rolling and winding path along
his walk, and to soak in the wonderful variety of God's creation, it is then
that a glimpse of God's kingdom is revealed to him.
I often catch myself living life with my head
instead of my heart, analyzing if I should do this or consider that instead.
Should I talk to that person I do not know very well or preserve my comfort? In
almost every instance where I over-think something instead of living with the
carefree assurance of a child, a pang of regret hits me afterwards because an
opportunity to bask in who or what God has put before me was squandered. On the
blessed occasion when I am playful, indeed I experience a manifestation of
God's kingdom in the experience. It is not that God deliberately hides His joy
from us for it pleases Him to shower us with all that He has, but it is that
sometimes in our own self-preoccupation and our tendency to want to control
things that we blind ourselves from His kingdom.
Lord, grant me the grace to live confidently
with childlike abandon in your love and help me to see the inner child in all I
encounter that I may love them as You love all Your children.
Reflected by Michael Jamnongjit
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