I have had a few conversations over the past two weeks about fun. I am one of those people who does not aspire for life to be full of monotony. I enjoy spontaneity and adventure! I teach one and two year olds and while the job certainly has its setbacks (I readily admit that!) it is at the same time one of the greatest jobs for me. I get to go to work and once there, PLAY! Where else can I go and be able to finger paint, play ring-around-the-rosie, shout with my outdoor voice, color with sidewalk chalk and blow bubbles...all in one day?? These kids are so good at just being kids and I know that I need to learn from them.
There are varying definitions of the word fun. I have spent time with people doing something and one of us will walk away saying, "that was fun" while the other is thinking, "fun? yeah, I guess you could call it that." For example, I really like word games-scrabble, boggle, apples to apples-but, my best friend absolutely hates them, one of us has fun, the other doesn't :-)
I have been so very grateful at realizing that I have some of the most wonderful friends anyone could ask for. Just when I think I'm about to completely lose my mind due to all the seriousness that is happening in my life Jesus provides opportunities for simple fun.
Last week, a friend and I went to a diner at 11:30pm just because we wanted to spend time together and I think that was one of the best plates of cheese fries I've shared with someone in a long time!
Another friend and I went to a coffee shop a while ago and played a game of scrabble-she won, I wasn't much competition!
I went to see a movie with some friends two weeks ago and after realizing how horrible the movie was we went and had amazing frozen custard to make up for it, because we were determined to have fun!
Last week a friend and I went tree climbing and in the process tore holes in our pockets and got our feet insanely dirty (so dirty that we washed them off in the park bathroom sink)...that was so much fun!
Sunday night I found myself in a friend's backyard having conversations about adventure that stirred up all kinds of dreams within my heart....especially dreams of traveling, traveling to Guatemala, California, Nepal, Columbia....it was a heck of a lot of fun to be amongst friends and dream :-)
On Monday at work, I found myself leaping like a frog and then slithering like a snake under tables!
Tonight some friends wanted to have fun so we went to watch the sunset and ended up rolling down grassy hills and attempting to make blades of grass whistle...lots of laughs :-)
Jesus tells us in Matthew 18:3, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven." If we are to have childlike faith it might help if we take time to see the world as children do...full of FUN!
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