Saturday, February 27
The Three Kings
For the
young will see visions and the old will dream dreams.—Acts 2:17
When you travel
somewhere, you usually have a destination in mind, a goal which you are
traveling toward. This particular day, we didn’t. Yes, at Trinity one
Sunday morning, Josh, Nate, and I
dressed up as kings who were seeking the baby Jesus, perhaps the most important
goal or destination of all, but we, ourselves, didn’t have a destination.
As we traveled to
each classroom, telling every group, young and old, about the kings and their
gifts, I thought to myself, why not go out of the church and travel in a place
where it was less common to come across three people dressed as kings? So my
two friends agreed, and the best moment of the three of us walking around in
public was when the rest of our youth group saw us on the street.
We had wanted to
surprise and hopefully embarrass them by walking into Starbucks as kings, but
they met us outside. The smiles and laughter which came from my friends were
too amazing to see that we couldn’t feel awkward about how we looked. Sometimes
it’s not about the destination, but the journey, and sometimes we need to let
go of our self-consciousness and live with passion and cherish each moment.
Acts 2:17 tells us about the future, how we
can see it in different ways, and that was so much more fun to do when dressed
as a king.
Caden Hirsch
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