I’m in airports all day today instead of frolicking through this scene of Narnia where I found myself this time yesterday.
The lines are long in here and everyone looks like they just woke up to the screech of someone yelling at them. Dazed stares. Disgruntled expressions. I actually think the most exhausting workout for people today is reciprocating a simple smile.
I watched a little boy in his stroller stare with wonder at the security machines. He started to laugh and clap at the life size toys before him as his mom strolled him closer to the front of the tedious line. His untainted joy at seeming drudgery melted the annoyed expression off of a man standing behind them. Other children nearby heard the little boy and smiled with a familiar flicker in their eyes.
They speak the same wordless language.
It’s as if the laughter of a child echoes out a secret whistle. It’s the kind of whistle with the power to stir those who are willing to hear it and be swept up in what it’s like to live without chains. To claim back what is so easily forfeited as humanity morphs into the man-made images society constructs. Like the tower Babel, glory always seems to be JUST outside of reach.
And so the construction plans continue like a fish caught on a hook. Exhaustion ensues. Insecurity ravages. Addictions are the sole outlets to relief. Robotic numbness is the norm. And we call it living.
But the life we long for is Life Himself. Not some ethereal unknowable deity. His name is Yeshua. Jesus the Christ. There is no other. And despite gross misrepresentations of Him, all that we ache for and infinitely more is found in Him alone.
He authored the invite for us to embrace innocence again. Childlikeness. Freedom. Not the counterfeit kind - but the real stuff which can only be activated through trust. The deep Treasure worth digging for in exchange for everything and everyone else. Even ourselves.
I’ll leave you with a quote I haven’t been able to get out of my head for three weeks. Enjoy chewing on it!
“The great beauty of childlikeness is the absence of self-consciousness.” -Andrew Murray