After Mass we stopped by the house so that our 11-year-old granddaughter could get her toiletries and clothes. While I was waiting by the sliding van door in the cold, because I knew she wouldn't be able to get it closed tight, I heard our 5-year-old granddaughter calling my name. So when I got in the car, I asked what she wanted.
It seems there was a pencil on the floor by her seat, and she just had to have it. Unfortunately, no one could reach it, and no matter how hard she tried, neither could she. It consumed her attention most of the short ride to her home.
It occurred to me that many of us - myself included - spend too much of our time, attention, and energy to things that are beyond our grasp that we think we just have to have. We're more childlike than we know, but usually not in the ways that we're really called to be.
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