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316 - To Be a Child |
To Be a Child
By Hugh T. Kerr
What is it to become a child?
The Kingdom of Heaven
Is it babyland, meek and mild?
New innocence given?Now that we're grown up, adult,
Must we reverse, go back,
Retrace our steps, the years default?
The world Ptolomaic?That's not, I think, what Jesus meant
(Though rebirth is return).
When we were young, we never dreamt
Dependence must be learned.Life's road stretched out so far beyond.
The future came each day.
Beginnings start and then are gone.
But new ones come to play.All children know to start afresh
Is what it means to live.
At Christmas time around the crèche
We hymn the narrative.For young and old we hear the call:
"You must be born again."
Begin anew! Start out as small!
A Kingdom to attain.