A Blessing to Work with Childlike Joy

Grandbaby Mia turns two today.

She doesn’t know it yet,

But she’s getting a toy shopping cart

Because she loves pushing a grocery cart

Around the Harris Teeter.

Now she’ll be able to push it around the house too.

She also loves her toy kitchen.

And she’s really good at cleaning

A restaurant table with an antiseptic wipe.

Ever wonder why little kids yearn

To do the tasks we adults have dubbed drudgery?

What happened on the path to adulthood

That made our work feel so much like work?

What happened after the Fall

That made Adam’s gardening vocation so toilsome?

When sin came, so did fear.

Fear of not being enough, not doing enough.

Fear of failing. Fear of being rejected.

When fear gets into our work, it feels like work.

But if the pressure lifts,

And you remember that you’re fully accepted

In the Beloved,

Work becomes a gift again.

So push your shopping cart around with joy!