060603 – 9p – Green Room Coffeehouse, Elkhart, IN
A sweet rocking band is playing (loudly). I watch three little boys and a little girl dance in the aisles, weaving and twirling dangerously between the chairs and tables. They are completely free. They have no care of what anyone would think of them because they don’t know about all those restraints that are placed on grownups. For right now they are unihibited by anything. Everyone just smiles and says, “remember when we were that young and free … ah, the days.” I try to remember, as I sit there, when it was that I lost my inhibition. When it became no longer “acceptable” to be free. What if I were to stand up right now and join in with the kids? Why am I unable to shake off the societal expectation that I should act my age (whatever that means)?
Isn’t it interesting that Jesus says that we need to become as children (Matthew 18:3) in order to come into His kingdom. There’s a lesson in that, I am sure of it.