04-19-2013, 12:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2013, 12:15 AM by Sagittarius.)
Read this quote today and thought it may be relevant to the thread.
Quote: Saint Paul expresses it very well: “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” It is a matter of growth. It is all right for little girls to play with dolls and little boys to play with toy cars, but no sane adult plays with dollies or toy cars. It is good for an infant to crawl, but after a while he must stop crawling and walk. And when he is skilled at walking he needs to learn to run. It is good for an infant to feed from a bottle and eat liquefied food, but in time he must eat mostly solid food. A child should be under the control of his parents, but not forever; he must become independent in deed and thought. School is good, but not if we never graduate. An airplane is wonderful to travel in, but would be a trap if we could never get out. A medication may be good for us to take, but not once we recover. Throughout life we encounter situations and things that are good for us until we move beyond them. They then are either useless or detrimental. It is good to be a child–but not for all our life. There is a time when belief in Santa Claus may be cute, but not into adolescence and adulthood. The Law is this: Grow, Grow Up, and Grow Beyond. “Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in understanding be men” .