Go back and walk!

Bathroom run! Walk! Jasmin go back and walk! Noah go back and walk! Faith go back and walk! Walk, Alex! Please walk 2nd graders. I cant count how many times I say walk everyday! These kids run from point A to point B. But yet they don't want to run a mile when we ask them to. When we tell them to go back and walk they run back to their starting point and the start walking...do you really not get it?! Man, these kids! I get so annoyed of reminding kids to walk sometimes. Sometimes I just wanna say screw it. Let them run, let the kids be kids by golly! But I know the one time I don't remind them to walk will be the one time they fall and crack their head open. They are so hyped up sometimes that I would love to have them run off all their energy. They think they're so sly when they skip or hop. "I'm not running," they tell me. "Yeah, but you're not walking either and that's what I'm asking you to do." But I wonder to myself, why do we suppress their childlike behaviors? Kids grow up too fast as it is. If that's the only thing they are getting yelled at about then they are good kids and there is no need for us to constantly be yelling at them. If being yelled at to walk is the least of their worries then they probably hear enough yelling at home and need a break from it at school. Then I wish I had half the energy they did. I can barely muster up enough strength and energy to walk across the room sometimes let alone to run across the playground. Imagine the things I could do and accomplish if I had their energy. Why is youth wasted on the young? ha! Look at me, becoming a granny all of a sudden. Then I think about all the things I rushed through in life. Things that I should have stopped, or slowed down at least to really drink it all in. What have I missed because I was too busy rushing from here to there. Or even more heartbreaking, who have I missed by rushing to and fro. If I would slow down in life would I be more effective? Is that why we yell at the kids all the time to slow down? So they can be more effective. I doubt it. Effective in what? So they can be more effective at driving me insane? They got that down pretty good as it is. God help me to be childlike in my faith again, to be eager to get to the next place. Lord give me the energy to serve You more, glorify You more, to advance Your Kingdom Lord. But my God please help me to slow down and notice the things You are trying to show me. Help me to not miss anyone that is desperate for You and that is crying out for attention. Lord, change me and make me more like You. I need Thee every hour Lord, I love You, more and more each day!