For close to 30 years, I looked forward to the start of school.
Whenever school supplies started showing up at the stores, a little thrill of excitement quivered through me. The kids and I would mark our way towards the hunt.
The smell of glue and the right pair of paper scissors.
Crayons and colored pencils in every hue of color. With new ones appearing every so often.
And of course a new bag to carry every little thing.
The school year marks the progression of time. We grow older and we
leave behind the things of our youth. We learn and move onward towards
being an adult. Making our way in this thing we call life.
Yet spiritually, we never grow old. Even with the passing of years we
hover in un-aging youth. Totally opposite of natural life. If we study
God's word, seeking to be more Christlike, we become more like a little
child. Simple. Childlike. Trust. Inevitably, we grow younger instead of
older. Revelation 22:13 states, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." When we trust Jesus
with child-like faith, we begin the journey of eternal childhood. It is
my desire to lean on my heavenly Father with the faith of a child.
Trusting.
Learning.
Loving.
"A bouquet of sharpened pencils' from You've got Mail. I think of that every year when the school supplies come out.
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