The Holy Spirit told Shelby that we'd meet someone from the local church in the city, someone we could encourage and pour into. We knew that if we continued to worship, people would come. So we started walking.
Then I saw a patch of grass by the water, and there were thousands of daisies on it.
Daisy chains.
I ran over and sat in the grass. I started to do what I hadn't done in years, tying one stem into a knot, and looping the next one through. I would make a crown, I thought. We are the children who are co-heirs with Christ. We are the children of the Kingdom.
Vitoria was sitting behind us as we started singing to Jesus. She glanced at us curiously as we sang the name of Jesus, and slowly, I watched her wrestle, leaning in and then away again. She eventually asked us where we were from, because no one in San Francisco ever acted as free as we did. She was part of a church in Sacramento, and we prayed and poured into her. Mariella came up with her daughter and asked us how we were making the daisy chains. Then two more people who were sitting nearby wants to know.
We showed them how to be children again.
The world needs to know how to be children again. We've all grown up too fast, having to be an adult and grow up before we were ready. But in the Kingdom Of God, you grow backwards, always becoming more like a child. And children will know the ways of God.
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