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I’ve been thinking a lot since my friend’s post on the “Green Hour” by the National Wildlife Federation.

The other day my brother was watching my kids play outside with their friends. They were running from whatever the latest invisible monster or badguy to attack our yards is.

My brother asked, “When do we loose our imagaination?”

Funny, because my brother and I would do the same thing, or he and his friends were Ninja Turtles and I was Shera but we didn’t need toys, we just needed open space and the brains God gave us.

We work so hard to acquire all the new gadgets to entertain our children but I can’t help but feel we hurt them a bit in the meantime.

Just think if our great thinkers, artists, poets and visionary leaders wasted their days growing up in front of the XBox. Where would we be?

God gave us a wonderful, beautiful world that too many children know nothing about.

Walking home from school today my daughter found this massive orange fungus in the neighbors yard, so we took a few minutes to inspect it. We also stopped to learn about the rings on a tree that was cut down. It’s that easy.

Not that I am always so good at this, I get caught up in the busyness of life as well. The other night I was bringing my clothes inside (I had remembered to hang them to dry but remebered, just before bedtime to bring them in:) and I looked up.

The sky was beautiful, not cloudless, but remarkable. The wind carried the strings of clouds slowly across the sky in front of the backdrop of evenings stars. How extraordinary.

But the sad thing is, I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I had simply looked up and gazed at the sky.

So take time with your kids, and take time yourself, to enjoy the gift of God’s creation. Take in it’s beauty or just allow the kids to play freely in it.

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