Lord, when did my world become so limited, fixed, and absolute? How did I lose my curiosity and agree to be constrained by imposed and unexplored assumptions? Please help me find the child in me that my education, life experience, and trying to prove my worth to others has set aside. Open my eyes to possibilities, potential, insight, and a new experience of You. Let me learn how to play again and to expand my inner vision to rediscover delight, joy, laughter, and far more un-seriousness in my relationship with You. Grant me the gift to know now what I knew then and the non-sense to live it. amen.
*Madeleine L'Engle, an author of many books and articles and
among other accolades she was a Newbery Award winner for her junior novel A
Wrinkle in Time. L'Engle was a devout, learned, and dedicated
Episcopalian. Later in life she was a "Writer-in-Residence" at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City where she is now buried.
Because of some of her theological views such as universal salvation and a
limit to divine punishment, many Christian libraries and bookstores refused to
carry her books while at the same time she was criticized by secular reviewers
as being "too religious." On writing for children, she often said
that children could understand very complex topics better than adults and she
emphasized the importance of being childlike and
not childish. I had the extreme delight and pleasure to accidentally
have her all to myself for over an hour once long ago and how lovely was our time
together.
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