It's christmas eve and I'm not even feeling up to it. it hardly seems tomorrow is christmas. if it wasn't for the decorations and gift-wrapping, it would go by like any other day. i don't know why, but i am just not....happy. yet, tonight at worship, a little six-year-old boy brought a smile to my face and made me laugh. but not the casual smile or the lighthearted laughter, it's the one that comes from within. when something really touches you. my dad asked him "what is the best gift you can receive for christmas?"
then came his reply after little thought--"x-box 360!" He really meant it too. (the intended answer was-of course-Jesus)
he enthusiastically goes to the piano to show us his one-finger version of 'O Come all ye Faithful." suggesting afterwards that we sing along to his playing. how is it that he can be like that?
I wish i could be like that. I used to be. energetic, happy, innocent.
the innocence of youth...
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aww. what's funny is that I was just writing similar thoughts in my own journal! my brother and i are the oldest in my first cousins, and the rest of them are inbetween the ages of 15 months and 14 years old -- but our family is so tight-knit and close. I was just writing about how children amaze me, they're beautiful, fragile, potent, energetic, happy, genuine, sincere...
as you said. the innocence of youth... is a beautiful thing. it really doesn't have to go away!? but it always seems to... :(
your story made me really happy though! inspiring really. what we used to have...
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