Free from responsibilities, schedules and concerns that come with adulting, watching the unconstrained joy children at play is appealing contagious. As childhood fades and we begin to tackle the necessary responsibilities, schedules and concerns that come with adult territory, an inverse relationship between age and joy tiptoes into life.
By God’s grace alone, having survived to attain an age where I’m no longer going to plant trees whose shade I’ll sit under . . . unless it’s bamboo😊 . . . I’ve reluctantly accepted this frustrating reality of life.
In the early 1980s when the Cold War was at its height, the anxiety of nuclear war spawned Forever Young song’s lyrics. Some of them echo my ‘never want to grow’ up antics and behaviors:
“It’s so hard to get old without a cause … I don’t want to perish like a fading horse …Youth’s like diamonds in the sun … And diamonds are forever
Let us die young or let us live forever …We don’t have the power but we never say never …Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip …The music’s for the sad men
Forever young, I want to be forever young“
It’s been said,
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
For verification, here’s a pic 😊
“This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalms 118:24
The Good News, John 3:16 assures each of us can remain … Forever Young … Play On!!! . . . and . . .
Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best is Yet to Come!
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