Children & Other People
Read this. If you need more incentive, here’s a paragraph, but you won’t appreciate it properly unless you’ve read the rest of the article:
I realize more and more that the gift of children is the gift of life. Children, my children, are sabbath life to and for the tired and weary. How easy would it be to come home and collapse on the couch and do nothing? How tempting would it be to sit in silence after a long day? But my children teach me to live. They teach me to laugh. They teach me to dance, to move my body, to sing, to pray, to ask questions, to read between the lines, to demand more from the world, more from my time, more from life. They won’t just leave me alone. They won’t let me miss life; they love me too much for that.
When you’re done reading the blog entry I linked, you can go on and read Toby’s posts on “A Theology of Other People.” And when the latest Credenda comes online, go and read Toby’s article on “Other People” there, too.