hider and seeker

A little girl giggled in a well-lit closet. She could hear someone passing in front of her door, opening another.

She hears a voice say, “Are you in this room?”

The little girl’s laughter can be heard all the way down the hall.

“You know I’m going to find you.”

The little girl peeks out of the closet to see if her pursuer is near.

“You can’t run. You can’t hide. I will find you.”

The little girl doesn’t say anything but covers her face to try to stifle her laughter at the sheer joy of the game.

“I think you are in this closet,” he said as he approached the girl’s closet.

In the game of Hide and Seek, the hider hides and eventually finds her way back to “base” – a place where she is safe from being tagged “it”. But the little girl just sits and waits giggling, perhaps too young to know she should have been finding her way back to base. She may eventually call out “Try the closet!” or some other hint because the enjoyment is in being found not in hiding.

As he opens the door, the little girl lunges at him and wraps her arms around him crying out “SAFE!” as if he were the base and they laugh together.

So maybe I’m too incredibly silly. But this is my idea of how to spend eternity with Christ.