I Want To Be a Baby Again

My 4 year old, Collins, has been helping me with project clean-and-purge the Barnett house while daddy and brother are at football practice. Recently, while I was going in and out of the attic, Collins saw his exersaucer that is a car shape. He asked about playing with it and I replied "that's for babies! You're a big boy!" He immediately snapped back, "aww I want to be a baby again." Not only did he say this, but he has literally harassed me about the car, even crying one night wanting "to be a baby again." 

It was annoying to me mostly, but the night he cried on the issue it struck a chord with me. We often look back at moments and think, "I wish life was like that again." Easier. Quieter, more fun perhaps. I believe God would have us remember the past, but not wish for it. Domenico Estrada, a Mexican writer, wrote "bring the past only if you're going to build from it." 

Rather than wishing to be back in a time that was easier or more simple, I am challenged to embrace the now and be in the moment. 

Steve Maraboli said in "Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience", "Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist."