Kid at Heart

It seems like the older you get, the farther away your childhood becomes.  You look at people that are growing older, not necessarily old, but becoming adults.  They are out in the real world now and sometimes it's like their childhood is nothing but a very distant memory.  With every year comes another birthday, another year older, and another year farther from childhood.  With my 19th birthday coming up, I am getting ever closer to "the real world."  While I am still young, and at least 3 years away from graduating college, my childhood is the last thing I want to lose.  At church today, I helped with the children's church during the main service.  We talked about Gideon going to war with God on his side.  One of the kids said that if he was Gideon going to war all he would need was armor, a shield, and a sword, and he'd be good to go.  If only it was that easy.  It seems like the older you get the more complicated that answer becomes.  But of course in the Bible, it was even more simple than the answer that the 7 year old gave. In the story, Gideon arms his shoulders with trumpets, torches, and clay jars.  Oooh, scary.  But, like nearly all things associated with God, the impossible happened and Gideon and the Israelites won even though they were extremely out-numbered and not armed with any weapon.  But the Bible story of Gideon and the Israelites really has no relevance here.  Just consider that your Bible lesson of the day.  This Bible story just accompanies the story of the 7 year old and his solution to the war.  The kid's answer was so simple.  And I can remember the days when my answers consisted of that level of simplicity.  When I didn't know about the evil in the world.  When I didn't know about a world outside of my own.  Whenever I get a chance, I like to revert back to those days.  I like to hang out with kids and just be a kid again.  I've been told numerous times by several people that I act like a kid especially when I am around kids.  One particular adult has even threatened to spank me and her kid if we kept acting how we were in a restaurant.  Countless times I would find her staring at me in awe and finally saying, "I swear, everytime you get around my kid you act like a 5 year old."  I truely am a kid at heart, and I forever want to be that way.