“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.” ~ Paul (1 Corinthians 13:11)

You know, even though I rarely sympathize with anything Paul has to say in the Bible, I DID relate to this verse when it came to the undersized playground equipment pictured … Of course, then I remembered that Jesus told us that it was necessary to “become again as a child” in order to powerfully serve others, and thereby experience the state of pure Bliss he liked to call “the Kingdom of Heaven” (Luke 17:20-21) … And then I remembered that, as an active Follower of The Way of Christ — that is, as someone who has chosen to embody the principles of practical selflessness & radical Kindness that Jesus lived & taught, it was exactly moments like these that I am to embrace, not disengage or run from; that if I can do anything at all to provide a smile of Joy or a sigh of Peace to another, then that is exactly what I have been Called to do — and that this is true whether I happened to fit on the damn playground equipment or not; indeed, especially because I so obviously didn’t!

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