Life through a 4-year-old’s eyes…

#24 Lenten Reflections

Some days I feel like I’m painfully inching up-up-up the Splash Mountain ride at Disney. Creaking and chugging along the way, thinking about the full nightmare of Gaza, Ukraine, cancer, acne, election year, school shootings, love handles, and the picture of the lost dog I’ve passed for the three weeks wondering if he’s home.

Then one day while I was chatting with Hadrian, a sweet and wise four-year-old who sounded like he should be God’s East Coast Representative. with all the answers for a simple life.

Here’s what he said:

“Life is like this…someday I’ll be in kindergarten, then first grade, then second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, then medium school, then big school. Then I’ll drive the car. Then I’ll have my own babies. Then I’ll die.”

That’s it. All we need to do is look at life in an outline form, big Roman numerals I, II, III.

While you fill in life’s hierarchies inside that simple outline, dig for the goodness: look up at the butterfly that drinks his fill at the milkweed and smell the bright purple crocus that pushed itself up even though the earth is dried and cracked, and my God listen to those frogs scream and sing in the ponds, and please when you get to the top of Splash Mountain of whatever you are climbing, throw your hands up and enjoy the ride down.

Thanks for joining me,

❤️Lucretia