Overthinking Life?
I have been playing my kids a lot over Christmas break on the Wii. Wii bowling, tennis and boxing. I am not too proud to say that my daughter can take me out in boxing, my older son takes me to the cleaners in tennis and well all them show me their stuff in bowling. If I play the computer, no problem. I outsmart the computer all the time with my thoughtful volleys and right uppercuts.But when it comes to the onslaught of my kids I am no match. After every game I sit dumbfounded. How can kids that don’t understand why the ball rotates the way it does or the difference between a left jab and a right hook continually take father down.
(I don’t offer this as a defense for my ineptitude) But, I think they win because they don’t over think it too much. When it is time to swing, they swing. When it is time to jab they jab. When they are up to throw the ball, they look at the pins and throw the ball.
This makes me ponder, what happened to my childlike attack on life. What happen to when I used to see a problem and just attacked it without much thought. What happened to when I used to just pursue God because that is just what you do. What happened to my faith that Christ would supply all my needs, because that is what He does.
What happened to when I would act and then feel and then think. Thinking is good, but when it gets in the way of attacking the opposition it can make you lose.
Why do I over think life? How can I renew my childlike approach on life?
