Our Father is younger than we.
Because
children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and
free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always
say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is
nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in
monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is
possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and
every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon. It may not be automatic
necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every
daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that
He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown
old, and our Father is younger than we.
--GK Chesterton
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