Encouraging the WildCrazy of Little Imaginations

Children seem to be unique in their ability to create magical worlds;
fantastic landscapes visible only to the imagination.

For Example:
Although we have all these “babies”
to play with….

My daughter:

Chooses to mother THIS all day long:

Sigh

But her imaginative behavior got me thinking…..

I see young children all around me struggling
to hold on to their belief and hope in the future,
so besieged are they by the cynicism of the world.

And that makes me terribly sad.

Can it be that our modern lifestyles invite
such an overwhelming amount of BusyBusyBusy….
that we are stifling our little ones and their ability to PLAY?

The truth is, the older we get the harder it is to hold on to whimsy.
To hold on to the belief that the prince gets his princess
and the bad guys always lose.
Although each one of us eventually grows up
to live “in the real world”
those childhood fantasies are the ones
that make scripture come alive to us the most.

The Bridegroom WILL return for His Bride.
The “bad guy” doesn’t stand a chance.
The end to our story is a happy one.

How important for us that we have the ability to daily walk in that.

I think the child that can hope and believe in
The Overwhelming Good…..
will grow up to to be a much healthier Christian.

A much more content adult.

So let us cultivate the ability to see the beauty in the ordinary,
and the magic in the mundane.
(or a small wooden fork:)

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood,
for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”
–Freidrich Froebel

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