Come out and play

Me: Lord, how do I become like a child when I approach You?

God: Patrick, do you remember what you used to ask when you would go to a neighbor's house to invite your friend to come outside?

Me: Yeah, "Can so and so come out to play?"

God: Right. To play was all that was ever specified. Everything was possible, anything could happen. It wasn't until the two of you actually got together that you decided what to play.

Me: So I should ask You to come out and play?

God: Patrick, I have been asking YOU! Come out of your shelter, and enjoy an adventure with Me. Just come out knowing that with Me, all things are possible, and even though we will battle and face perils, we always will come out the victors. The adventure is ours, and I cannot be beaten.

Do you remember that dream, in which you saw an abandoned room full of toys where you had "left your heroes behind?" Well, it's time to re-discover that sense of adventure that inspired your imagination, the same imagination that made you have heroes.

You used to play so much, you were always battling, conquering, adventuring. With Me, it is the same, only real, and instead of pretending to be Han Solo, Superman, Batman etc., you get to be YOU! And your superpower is Me. Oh, the adventure! Come out and play.