A good day.

The day started with taking the children to school. It does not happen often and when it does I ask myself why I don’t make the time or take the opportunity to do it more often. I get a nice proud ‘these are my children’ moment as we walk to the school gate together.

The schools are real mission fields for our kids. Tom came home the other night and ‘matter of factly’ said his friend had become a Christian that day. Apparently in an RE lesson he asked Tom how to become a Christian. Tom told him, they prayed, and that was it! Again I was so proud to hear what he was up to. I wonder if we complicate things sometimes.

I wonder if Jesus meant more when he refers to us needing to be like little children than we realise at first read. I’ve been pondering on this and thought about some differences between children and adults and came up with:

children trust openly and ‘without a care’ while adults have their personal agendas

children act quickly while adults like to talk about it

children take the easy and direct route across the mud while adults walk the long way around on the path trod by many

children like to have fun while adults like to do work

children walk the wrong way up escalators …. adults don’t

children like to go round and round in revolving doors – adults try to avoid them and choose the normal door

children play together while adults strive for power

children act like children while adults act like, errr, adults!

As a parent some of those things about children really wind me up. They get loud. They get messy. They wear me out! Despite all that they tend to achieve what the set out to do, probably employing more creative and direct methods than I would.

Maybe we need to be more child-like in our mission efforts. I think we certainly need more fun in our efforts.