DO IT AGAIN!

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and  the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." G. K. Chesterton

At 19 years old:

God you renewed my spirit.

God you satisfied the longing and filled my hungry soul.

God you freed me from sin and guilt.

God you set the lonely in a family.

I got baptized 41 years ago on Thanksgiving evening having given my heart and soul to Christ just 3 weeks earlier. That is 14,996 sun rises and moon rises. That could be monotonous except when we see that: “God is strong enough to exult in monotony.” Do you wonder with me just how many daisies God has made since that day, never tiring of making them? 

How many church services have I sat through? How many verses of scripture have I read?  Do they grow old and monotonous? How many times have I asked you for that and didn’t see the answer? Does this walk grow old and filled again with sin?

God you renewed my spirit. Do it again.

God you satisfied the longing and filled my hungry soul. Do it again.

God you freed me from sin and guilt. Do it again.

God you set the lonely in a family. Do it again.

Because I am a child of God I “abound in vitality,” and my “spirit fierce and free.”

Do it again! 

With the eternal appetite of infancy,

Connie Jo

Victoria Butchart Gardens at 21

Jumping into a cave in Cozumel at 61