This year I'm studying at Laidlaw College, which is a Bible college out in West Auckland. It's a great place and I've been enjoying all my classes so far. Within the Laidlaw campus there's a small primary school and often I'll pass by their main field and playground on my way to class from the student carpark. The kids are so carefree and little. It seems incredible that we were once like that too.
The other day I was walking past the primary school field during lunchtime and there were a bunch of little kids about to start a soccer game. The group were roughly in two teams, and a small boy was announcing the rules of the match to his small friends in a squeaky voice.
"It's not pulling people's shirts soccer. It's not pinching people soccer. It's... it's not tackling soccer. It's not... It's not..."
I think that we discern from an early age that without rules and boundaries we descend into anarchy. I hope they eventually got to play, and that everyone remembered what kind of soccer they weren't playing.
G.
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