More Than Just A Little

You can't teach an old dog new tricks...

This may be true, but an old human

I think you can teach them new tricks

     If they never lose the wonder of living that is. 

     Somewhere along the way it tends to happen to us though. We seem to want to put the kid inside of us away and we call it maturity, but suppressing the kid inside doesn't achieve maturity. It achieves a a substitute, yes, but it doesn't achieve maturity. 

     When we suppress the kid inside of us, we lose something that we should never lose. We lose the wonder of it all, and with that loss our personality takes a very harsh and boring blow. We become the know it alls, the sticks in the mud, and downright annoying to most people. 

It is not uncommon for us to find ourselves in this state though.

It happens to the best of us, and sometimes makes the worst of us if we don't snap out of it. 

     It doesn't always come from the same place in everyones lives. Honestly, some people might lose the kid much earlier in their lives than adulthood. Sometimes men walk out on their families leaving their sons or oldest daughter to be the man of the house, simply robbing them of their childhood. This is cruel. 

For others it may just be that life has gotten tough and stressful and nothing that we'd think the kid in us could handle, but in all honesty it's nothing we could handle without the kid in us, because the kid in us is the part of us that can see the hint of beauty in what feels like disaster. 

Being from Pensacola FL I've lived through a few hurricanes,  and one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my life was the stars after hurricane Ivan. Now semi mature teenager in me wanted nothing more than for the power to be back on so that I could play video games and enjoy some A.C. ,but when nightfall came the kid in me took over. 

     In the midst of what felt like disaster, the kid in me was able to find something beautiful.

I was able to stand in awe and wonder of God's incredible creation. During that time I'd been dealing with a lot of bigger things than having no power, but it was those nights that brought me through. 

I'm reminded that Christ calls us to be like children

One of the greatest examples I've ever seen of this in my life

is a man named David Cash

He's one that I've described as a man that knows how to be mature,

but not a stick in the mud. This man has definitely influenced my life in massive ways

that I don't think I'd be able to comprehend had I not met him.

Shout out to David Cash lol

May we never fully lose our wonder and awe of this world

May we never become know it alls and miss it all because of that

and may we forever live more than just a little