I’ve picked the word CHILDLIKE to be the focus for my life in the year 2010.
Becoming CHILDLIKE to me means:
Believing life is good
Living uninhibited
Creating magical moments
Having little to no worries
Believing tomorrow holds endless possibilities
Believing in happy ever after endings
Innocence
Free-Spirited
Joyful
Excited
Hopeful Anticipation
Girlish (Boyish) Wonder
Not bound by the rules of how things should be
Believing in the midst of tough questions
Believing the world is exciting and adventurous
Wearing Rose-Colored Glasses
Playing Hard
Getting lost in the moments
Being real and candid
Why do I try so hard to be so adult? And who said being an adult means I need to kill off my passions, stop taking risky adventures, drown my joys in miserable suffering and replace my desires with shoulds?
The book that I wrote, and am soon jumping into editing, has a working title of Childlike.
A new collection that I designed for Scrap Girls is also named Childlike.
The freedom that I’ve been feeling in reading Galatians makes me feel CHILDLIKE.
My desire to read classical fiction novels again, as opposed to the non-fiction books I’ve been reading for so long, feels childlike.
It’s as if this word has been chasing me down and breathing life into me. I love it.
This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” Romans 8:15 (The Message)
This is where I am at at the beginning of 2010. What’s next God? You’re FREEing me up to do things I so long to do, you’re reminding me I can be IMPERFECT in the process, and now you’re inviting me to become CHILDLIKE. It’s so exciting.
I think it might be a year of looking utterly ridiculous. I think it might be a year of drowning out nay-sayers and tuning into “my Papa’s” voice. I think it might be a year of letting go of some of my calculated drive and embracing the playful next steps God asks me to take, even if they seem useless and a waste of time. I think it might be a year of doing lots of little things I’ve never done before (or haven’t done in years) and thus learning to live a fuller, richer life. I think it might be a year of studying my own kids and learning from them. I think it might be a year to fall in love with magical stories. I think it might be a year of breaking down legalism and rules and shoulds and have-tos in my life and trading them all in for the adventure of a lifetime. The adventure God is calling me on. I would love to share the journey with you!
We are all born children. The trick is how to remain one. – Picasso
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I wanna come! Let’s dance in the sun, run through the meadow, pick baskets and baskets of wildflowers and then fingerpaint on the windows of our souls as we rest in His Amazing Grace! OX
Yay!! Looking forward to all this year has in store for you!! Wanna Wig Out with me sometime soon? Pretty sure that would qualify as “Childlike”
Love you!!
Childlike, love it. I’ve felt a growing passion to grow in (childlike) faith this year…sort of a reaching inwardly & backwards to reconnect w/ that once held characteristic. Your post here is an encouragement.
Love it! Now you can call candy canes “hooks” like my little 2 year old Lukas! For some reason that seems to me to be so childlike! It sounds like a year of FUN coming up and FUN means relaxation AND energy at the same time! You deserve it.
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