I’ve been seeing the preschool teachers’ cars in the parking lot as I come to church each morning—I am so looking forward to hearing the children on the playground outside my office window! In our button-pushing modern world, very young children remind us that there is much to learn and much living to do outside of our (definitely handy and sometimes even fun) electronic devices: the sheer exuberance of movement, the uninhibited freedom to call out loud, and the immediacy of the small things worth noticing, like the ladybug or the strange caterpillar.
These, too, are blessings, offered to us quietly.