My kids and some of their friends have started to blog. How easily they seem to write posts! Theirs is a spontaneity, a joy, an unpretentiousness that is refreshing. You can see some of their work (play?) via the “Worth a Look” box in the right column.
Having noticed this zest for life, I also ran into this gem from Austin Farrer’s The Triple Victory:
I who write these sentences am what is politely called a middle-aged man; that is I have perhaps the fifth part of my earthly course to run; and my intellectual decay is not so evident to me as it is (no doubt) to my colleagues. I am certainly not so far
gone to wish to return to the thoughts of my early manhood…
At the same time, I cannot be so blind as to miss the advantages I then held and have since forfeited. I do not speak of physical strength or sensuous enjoyment; charming as such faculties may be…
I speak of imaginative warmth and inventive fertility. I was making my mental world then; now I have to live in it. I can clear it up and consolidate the parts; I can reform it here or there; I cannot make it again.
So, my young friends, enjoy making your mental worlds! Live life to the fullest! Walk with Jesus every day and let his never-failing youthful zest fill you up to the brim–now and as you get older!
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