It used to be so simple when I was a child.
The streets were filled with children
and laughter, games and friendships.
I spent my summer evenings playing
“Mother May I” and “Hide and Seek”
with my sister and friends.
We would ride our bikes with
baseball cards clothes pinned to the spokes
and skated the sidewalks with
our four-wheeled roller skates until
all hours of the night.
I didn’t have to worry about anything
but not hearing Daddy’s distinctive
whistle when it was time
to come in for the night.
Life was so much simpler then.
Ollie, Ollie, Ox in free!
For many years I played my own game of
Hide and Seek from my heavenly Father.
I knew that God was there but
I chose to hide from Him. He was it!
He would wait by the tree with His eyes closed
(or so I thought) and count,
1…2…3
I played the game of life my way
and hoped that He wouldn’t find me.
4…5…6
How foolish to think that the
God who create me wouldn’t also
watch over His creation.
Even Jonah in the belly of a fish
couldn’t hide from God,
why would I possibly think that I could?
7…8…9
How could a God so Holy, so Powerful
want to find a sinner like me?
10
Ollie, Ollie, Ox in free!
I love you my child, come seek Me.
Now that I know I cannot hide from God
I have learned to seek Him more.
I have learned that the joy and happiness
I felt as a child can also be
the same joy and happiness I feel today
as an adult - as His child.
Written by Brenda Bates - 2005
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