Do you give your children keys to the shiny new
car? No, of course not.
Do you let them play with the
powerful sword? No, of course not.
Do you give them the cards to the expense
account, for the truly expensive and valuable items? No, of course not.
You don’t give that to a five year old.
You teach them with toys.
You build their
skills and their confidence
until you know that they’re ready
for the good things.
The valuable things, the rare things, the expensive things.
I feel like that is this life.
I feel like
we are currently kindergarteners waiting and learning.
Before graduating with a PhD, before going through
more education, getting better
resources and learning how to manage
the little toys we’ve been given.
When we have the little Tonka Trucks and
practice with them really well, take care of them, to see if we can actually manage a car.
It’s not quite the same. But
sometimes I think that’s what heaven will be like.
Having shown what we can actually manage
and our awards based on what we did,
getting keys to the real car, getting
keys to the expensive and valuable and the truly fun things.
Things that you can’t trust to children who are untrained, and
even when they’re trained, they’re
not quite mature enough for it yet. For now,
we aren’t quite ready
the truly Good Things.
Martin Write 