2 weeks Ago
This is a new adventure for our four-year-old, while his older sister had been encouraging me to introduce a kitten for quite some time, and I have tried to make it her responsibility. Now at 16 weeks old, the kitten has stretched her size and also her curiosity. However, as you who have had a kitten before will know, she has lots of spells tearing across the room, up onto the mantlepiece and shooting up the curtains right to the pelmet, and then across the curtain rail along the top and down the other side, hanging on while she lowers herself down and back to the ground.
So far, the curtains have survived without too much damage. Watching this harum-scarum activity, I was really impressed not only with the cat’s agility, but with the way she judged distances, or occasionally didn’t get it quite right, before launching herself in every direction and at great speed, often jumping several times her size. Harum-scarum is an adjective that means lacking a sense of responsibility.
..and taking many risks.
Daredevil and madcap come to mind as similar words. The term may have originated from the phrase ‘hare ‘em, scare ‘em’, and she has had us scared she will damage or even break her bones that way more than once. It made me think, and even hope, that if we are Christian and love Jesus, we might become a little more reckless in the way we show our faith; to come out of our comfort zone.
St Peter found that when invited to walk on water, and I feel we are being asked by God, not only to rely on His strength and His power, but to do the same works that Jesus did, or as He said, even greater ones. His life was based on doing only what He saw His Father do, and God wants us to not only to love Him more, and to listen to Him more, and sense His guidance but also to expect His energy and power in our lives to speak to and help others based on what Jesus did. I reckon He’s more ready than we are to show His energy and power through our lives to the real benefit of our community.
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