This is Gonna be fun!

There is something about the excitement and innocence of children that I want back. I fought for so long to not lose it but life happens and we slowly listen to the lies of reality and reason. We've lost our wonder.

I'm sitting in a coffee shop, reading, listening to the world go by and this little boy comes in with his mum. He would be 3 or so. He looks so excited, asking questions, happy, secure. His eyes are dancing. He looks around and says: "this is gonna be fun!" his mum didn't hear him properly so she kept asking "what?" and he repeated it in the same excited tone.

It really made me smile and dream and wish and hope that there was still wonder in the world. He felt the buzz of the life around him, he was just drinking everything in and it amazed him! It was like sitting in a coffee shop sipping his smoothy with his straw was one of the coolest, fun things ever!

When did I last get excited? Actually, last night. I got my birthday present from Helen. Dr. Martens! Flippin' right on. I danced I laughed and smiled and wanted to buy more. I wanted to sleep in them, I felt they were made just for me!! Excited is not the word!

Then I came for coffee and took in all that mundanity and lost that excitement. But maybe there is still wonder in the world. Maybe we just need to forget logic and reason and stop listening to everyone else and live and listen and watch everything around us and get excited.

I love how Jesus talked about child like faith and not worrying and just living and going and doing. We've lost that. Church is a shadow of what it should be because we've logicised God and put Jesus in a box that sits well with our understanding.

I always loved Christmas because it gave a sense of wonder. We lose that after a while and become cynical and flat and hard. There is wonder in Christmas, Jesus coming was miraculous, it was destiny and grace and hope. There is wonder in love.

I think it's time to look at everything and see the wonder and amazingness in it.

In the film Elf, Will Ferrel is so excited about everything, it's infectious. People tell me I'm immature sometimes. If finding wonder in simple things and getting excited about the mundane is immaturity then bring it on. Maturity is over rated and wrong.

Let's start a revolution.