Called Out

I love playing video games. I also love reading fantasy novels, which is really weird to say because I spent most of my life avoiding books like the plague. I enjoy these things because it give me a way to escape the pressures of the day. However, just like with most anything, too much of it can be nasty business.

With games I always get sucked in to the almost never ending..."if I make it to the next save point I'll shut the game off....just one more...one more...OK...really...this is the last one..." and on and on! Books are the same way, digging through chapter after chapter just because the last chapter ended with a cliffhanger. The sad thing was that I never realized any of this because I was so engrossed in the game or story.

What brought me back to reality you ask?

A fat ton of bricks dropped this very day by my seven year old daughter, Bethany. She walked up to me and said, "Dad, you spend too much time on your computer and your phone."

Talk about a slap in the face! I think I still have the glowing red hand print.

It's funny how very wise a simplistic thought can be. Even Jesus himself saw and knew this.

Matthew 18:1-5

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

He called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Children are so much more full of wisdom than we give them credit for. To them, what they see around them day in and day out, it is what it is. They have yet to learn to rationalize life to the point that they make it what they want it to be. It is that very simplistic wisdom that we often need, as adults, to bring us back to the real life.