Young at heart? Mary Brown’s Thought for the Week

‘I can again delight in simple pleasures.’

by Mary Brown 4th October 2024

‘When I became a man I put away childish things.’

Despite Jesus’ injunction to become as little children, Paul seems to be suggesting to the Corinthians that adulthood is to be preferred. I hate the term ‘second childhood’, and do not appreciate medical staff and workmen talking to me as if I were a child, but I confess that in old age I am learning to appreciate some things I had previously put away as childish.