PLAY TIME!!!

Remember when you were a kid?  

The other day as I was driving to WORK, I saw a couple kids on their way to SCHOOL!  One on a bike, another on a skateboard.  If you remember being a kid, then you might be putting these items together.  The kid on the bike is pulling the kid on a skateboard with a short belt being used as a improvized tow rope.  The bike took the corner too sharp and skateboarder was heading straight for a steet sig!  The tow was broke off and the skateboarder widened the corner into the grass for a softer stop.  PLAYING!  On their way to school!  As a kid the moments of getting to something are filled with PLAY!  Play between classes.  Play while getting ready for bed.  Playing with your food.  Play while doing HOMEWORK.  Play Play PLAY!   That is all these kids do they are PLAYING all the time!

What happened?  Why as adults do we not play on our way to WORK?  Why is everything so SERIOUS?  Perhaps as children pursuieng adultness, we heard no- play challenges that beat the play out of us...

"Why don't you GROW UP!"  

"Quit playing around with that."

 "Stop PLAYING with your food!"  

"Act your age!"  

The playing subsides and all seriousness breaks through.  Adults we become and adultness surrounds our everything. The way to work is filled with thoughts of work and other adult stuff.  Time to eat is filled with time of eating.   Serious about everything and NO TIME to PLAY.   Side note:  (actually not a side note, cuz it is in the middle so it should be a middle note)  I know, some adults never ever grow up and may need to get serious.  These adults may need to "Grow up!" a ittle bit.   The sad truth is most of us forget to play.  We get lost in busyness, perhaps worry and even fear.  The kid in us cries out to play.  God cries out for us to give Him all our worry and fears.  Perhaps if we give Him all our worry and fears and even our busyness then we may again find tome to play.  

Take time to PLAY!!!