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Why childhood is better the second time around (standard:humor, 909 words) | |||
Author: Godspenman | Added: Jan 20 2019 | Views/Reads: 1505/1110 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
God has my best interest in mind for the longest period of time. | |||
Click here to read the first 75 lines of the story For example, when the parents of a two-year-old take him out to a restaurant he is completely at the mercy of the parents. "Eat your vegetables," the parents demand, "then you can have dessert." There is nothing the two-year-old can do at this point. After all, the one who pays the bill gets to say who does what. Now, as I enter my second childhood I have the advantage of knowing that all that malarkey about eating your vegetables first is just that... malarkey. And, since I am paying the bill, I will eat the desert whenever I want to eat it. In fact, I will start with dessert and end with dessert. And while I am on the subject, if I do not want to order vegetables, I will order no vegetable. Many has been the time when my wife and I are out to a restaurant and she will order a properly balanced meal, while I order dessert. "You do know vegetables are good for you?" my wife will insist. "I know no such thing," I reply. The two-year-old believes it when his parents say that vegetables are good for him, especially the green vegetables. But someone like myself, enjoying the second go around of his childhood, knows this is absolutely not true. And, it is not true that I have to clean my plate before I can have my dessert. As a mature man enjoying his second childhood, I do not have to believe everything people tell me. If dessert was not good for me, why in the world does it taste so good to me? I have good scriptural evidence that God is on my side here. In the Psalms I read about God, "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's" (Psalms 103: 5 KJV). God has my best interest in mind for the longest period of time. Tweet
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