like little children

This week's sermon used a great quote to expound on the Scripture where Jesus tells his disciples to become more childlike to partake of the Kingdom of God.  This is an excellent example of how walking in God's "mission" for me as a parent has made my overall Christian walk so much richer.  Without being fully immersed in Elias' abounding vitality and fiercely free spirit, I wouldn't be able to grasp Chesterton's point with nearly as much depth:  the difference in "knowing" and "living" something.

...and perhaps now I won't be so easily annoyed at his delight in "do it again, Mommy!"

"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