Watching my kids grow.
Always brings me back to my own days as a kid.
When I got so enthused by transformers toys and the complex role plays
But also obsessed and so carried away by the video games
It feels like another cycle sometimes
We always tells our kids don't do this and don't do that
Because we feel we want the best for them
But in many ways it doesn't feel right the more you look at it
We are all kids inside aren't we?
We still role play in our heads as we imagine business scenarios
Even as we teach others, it's like how we try to get our younger brother and sister on our side to teach them what we know and not what they don't know
How we still want things our way, despite our innocence driving that thinking we are always right
How we cry and we continue to cry, and some of us still throw tantrums
How our lives are full of entertainment.
We tell our kids the phone is not for you yet we incessantly get carried away with our phones ourselves
We ask them to build but many times we ourselves tear things down
We ask them to care and share for others but most of the time we just care and share about ourselves
It's right to have hope.
Hope that they will do better.
But it's also important to remember our humanity
That we try harder but also failed harder
To my little kids. It's a harsh world out there.
You don't have to grow up in every way.
Keep your innocence.
Keep yourself.
Keep your tears.
Keep your memories.
Keep each other.
Keep Christ in your heart.
They will bode you well even as you grow.
And even if you become jaded like me. Even if you fail like me. Even if you hurt like me. There's at least one Jesus, and one more me, looking out for you. Another kid on your block wanting to not just play with you but walk with you in life.
I'm like you. Just bigger. And you just smaller, for now.
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