I remember the child-like innocence in growing up. The simple life. People said it, you believed it.
No second guesses.
No cause for concern.
No asking, "but why?"
We, as children, took things literally until someone or something came along to prove them wrong.
I grew up in the land of make believe.
I didn't have an imaginary friend or even an imaginary world.
I did have an IMAGINATION.
Something lacking in today's society.
Today, our children live in a world where everything is stimulated all at the same time, by technology. TV, Movies, DVDs, CDs, Ipods, Gameboys, Wii's, Playstations, Xbox, Nintendo's, Cell Phones and Computers.
Our kids today aren't being challenged like we were in growing up. Here is what I remember.
I had super powers!
Did you?
I had them until I tried them and found out, I didn't.
But I believed I did.
I believed if you jumped off the roof, with your umbrella, wide open, that you would become like Mary Poppins. You would either fly away, or simply float to the ground.
Gravity proved me wrong there. I fell like a brick! Yes I tried it. That is how I learned that umbrellas don't work for anyone else but Mary Poppins.
I guess it was her 'super power device!'
I also believed that if you tried hard enough, focused intently enough, and squeezed your eyes tight enough, you could make things happen!
You could bend spoons.
Read peoples minds.
Make things move.
Hear peoples thoughts.
But it never happened. Oh I tried long enough and hard enough, but it was a reality check for me. No super powers there.
For now, just Hiro in Heroes has that ability to stop time, Matt can read minds and make things happen. Yes, I watch Heroes!
From the time we watched The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, we believed we had super strength and super speed.
Remember how you used to try running super slow but over exaggerated, and made the 'bionic sound?' We tried to lift mom or dads car in the driveway or pick up a large boulder, along with the sound, but nothing happened. Nothing moved.
I believed that if you strapped on your roller skates and held onto a plastic bag in the wind, you'd go places. Guess I was too heavy or it simply wasn't windy enough, we didn't move.
I also believed if you tied a towel or sheet around your neck and ran really hard with your arms held out in front of you, you would experience lift off and begin flying.
Nope, still nothing happened.
Reality, again!
My hubby told me that growing up, he believed that if he put his fishing pole into his swimming pool, if he was patient enough, he could catch a fish.
He got lots of practice casting but no bites.
Kids experience life, because we don't question reality.
We experience reality, when we risk trial and error, and things don't work out. We may even try again.
God's faith is a lot like that. It reminds me of the line from the movie, The Santa Clause with Tim Allen. Seeing isn't believing, it's believing when we don't see. Everyone can experience faith in its purest form.
Just ask the next child you meet, what their super powers are? It starts out that simple!
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