God is Young

A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not

absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality,

because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they

want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it

again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is

nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to

exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough… It is

possible that God says every morning, “Do it again,” to the

sun; and every evening, “Do it again,” to the moon. It may not

be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be

that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired

of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of

infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is

younger than we.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy [1909]

Stolen from an email from a friend