JOYFUL LIVING
Children are again probably our best teachers in this regard, for they seem to know how to let life hug them. One of their philosopher friends, Winnie-the-Pooh, expressed disciplined grace well: “poetry and hums aren’t things which you get, they are things which get you. And all you can do is go where they find you.” Probably the best example in our house occurred one evening at the dinner table. Zachary was so overtaken by the day that he was singing a little home song: I was walking along and saw a dog — and he said bow wow. And the cat said meow, and the cow said moo. And as I was walking along I saw some flowers . . . There was a rather long pause, so I asked innocently, “And what did they say?” And they said, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” When I was four, God was everywhere. I hope, as…
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