Lessons From A Shooting Star
Part 2
How would you react if you just saw a star shooting past you in the vast skies when you least expected it but had hoped it just the day before? Silence in wonder and awe? Shrieking in excitement? Would you keep it to yourself though...or exclaim the news to the folks who happen to be around?
Well guess my strange reaction......
I silently gasped in awe.
Then just a few minutes after the event, my sister and two sweet kids - Caleb and Kayla (who i had such fun staying with in Cebu) - came out to the rooftop to wash some clothes and play. I didn't utter a word of what i just witnessed. My heart was urging, my mind on the other hand thought "Hey its over, its no big deal...save your energy" (i don't know what came over my mind!!!no big deal???what energy???!!!). And so i didn't say a thing, not a thing.
Till like ten minutes later, when our conversations based on the children's questions shifted to the stars in the sky. Then i nonchantly mentioned...i just saw a shooting star.
Well guess the kids' reactions........
their eyes went wide! they asked again and again...and again "You saw a shooting star? now? up there? where? how did it look like? did it go like this? oh it was too fast?etc etc..."their voices shrieked higher with every question. And when it was time for them to go back into the house to get ready for bed...guess what's the first thing they told their mum???
"Ate (meaning 'big sister' in the language) Rachel saw a shooting star! Really you know mummy...she's not bluffing! She saw a shooting star"!
Now need anyone wonder why in Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me...for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these"? It's because children never lose their sense of wonder and tireless excitement! A new awesome thing remains a new awesome thing! They don't hide their joy, or fear that something will dissipate and disappoint. I've never seen a child jaded. I've never been jaded as a child.
But that night i realised i had become a jaded adult! I've become jaded at God's handiwork and failed to spread the wonder & joy. And i slowly realised jaded-ness and complacency are not farly related...So as the newness of the new year wears off in the daily grind of life...i'm resolved to be an un-jaded person!
See a shooting star, a flower...or anything worth mentioning? Mention it with zeal to God and your loved ones! :)
Song of the season...