Text Box: GOD’S PRE-KINDERGARTEN FOR TWO YEAR OLDS

We can obtain a good grasp of spiritual reality if we think of mankind as a bunch of two year olds attending pre kindergarten.

God the Father set up the school and its program. His Son Jesus Christ, God, built the school, put the program into effect and “got things going”. And the Holy Ghost, God, now runs the school. We really must admire and thank the Holy Ghost.

Two year olds get into everything. They explore, have no concept of potential harm to themselves or to others, and usually are only partially potty trained. They can not be reasoned with for they lack the ability to reason beyond the most rudimentary levels, and logic often has no part in their lives.

Two year olds can learn and so do primarily by example, by emulating others. If there is a bunch of two year olds they will generally follow the examples given by each other because adults are too big and a two year old can only see an adult in stages - feet and knees, stomach, then face, usually skipping the torso. But a two year old can see another two year old with a single glance or look. So two year olds are more inclined to emulate other two year olds simply because they can see all of what the other two year olds are doing. Unfortunately they can also see most puppy dogs with a single glance, and will often emulate them as well as other two year olds.

Does the analogy between mankind and two year olds hold true so far? Yes it does.

The Holy Ghost trains the best of the two year olds He can persuade to work with Him, so that they can provide good example to the other two year olds.

But none of them, neither the trained nor the untrained, are very well potty trained. So there will be “accidents”. The pee pee diaper changes are not too Text Box: bad, but the pooh pooh diapers, well sometimes changing them requires real love. Especially ones which have not been changed in a very long time and challenge the “gag factor”. Most Priest remember some of those confessions where the last confession was several years ago. And if some of our politicians ever go to confession, well there will be some real “doozies”.

Two year olds are attracted to toilets like iron shavings to an electromagnet. Mankind's toilets are just as full of germs, bacteria, and all that will cause disease, and mankind likes to play in its toilets just as much as two year olds like to play in the toilet. Whether it is a latrine trench, an outhouse, or a modern toilet, the attraction is there, and of course when one plays in a toilet that one often falls into the toilet. Then the dunkee must be given a bath.

The Holy Ghost not only changes the diapers, but He also is the one who gives the baths. Now that is true love.

By now some of the men are chuckling and cringingly remembering the last pooh pooh diaper they changed. And all of the women are smiling that pinched smile with which all men have become familiar and the women are thinking, “Just like a man. Leaves the pooh pooh diapers for the women. The Holy Ghost must be a woman.”

But your brain is working better than it was a few minutes ago and that has been the purpose of this.

We really are like two year olds. We really do learn more from each other than we do from the spiritually adult in God. And God really did set up the system, really does provide us with all that we need, sees to our inoculations - ever hear of the Sacrament of Baptism, changes our diapers and cleans us up - ever hear of Sacramental Confession and Absolution, heals our wounds - ever hear of Sacramental Holy Anointing, has a graduation system - another aspect of Holy Anointing, feeds us - ever hear of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, exercises us to strengthen us - ever hear of the Sacrament of Confirmation or Text Box: Chrismation, trains other two year olds so that we will have them to imitate - ever hear of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, and has provisions to obtain more two year olds - did you think Holy Matrimony was just for . . , well we better leave that one alone.

Everything happens in God’s Pre-K for Two Year Olds. Even dinner. Sometimes God has to feed us. Sometimes we feed ourselves. Sometimes is is a combination of both. Have you ever seen two year olds feed each other? Watching two year olds eat green peas can be agonizing and amazing at the same time if they pick up one green pea at a time, place it on a spoon, and then place the spoon in their mouth. Strained green peas are something else. And of course, occasionally, there are those who wish to explore a pooh pooh diaper while they are eating strained green peas.

The world really is not a zoo. It is a school for two year olds. We should be very thankful to God for setting it up the way He did because if He had not set it up the way He did, then it could easily have been a zoo. And if it were a zoo, who would change the pooh pooh diapers? Actually, the real question is: would there even be diapers. We are not allowed to say what we would be if we did not have at least diapers.

Be nice to our headmaster the Holy Ghost, God, for He proves His love for us every day in every way.

Ref: Acts 2:1-11; John 14:23-31

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