I heard this song the other day, and I couldn't stop listening to it. PBS remixed clips from Mister Rogers, and came up with this awesome song.
Other than the song being beautiful, I thought it was a neat thing to think about.
"Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
You can grow ideas,
In the garden of your mind.
It's good to be curious,
About many things.
You can think about things and make believe,
All you have to do is think,
And they'll grow."
I didn't start going to church and hearing the Gospel until I was 13 or 14. At that point, I was in high school, and church and Christianity was very much about rules and strict guidelines to me. It was kind of a defense mechanism, I guess, because I felt that I was in the minority at school, and my faith was defined by the things I didn't do, like drink or have sex. I was very uncomfortable with the thought of anything being different from the conservative values I had been taught at church. Not with other people believing or doing different things, but rather with the possibility of them actually having some truth to them.
I guess subconciously I was scared to think outside the box I had been given. It was the structure of belief I had been given, and I thought that if something I believed wasn't exactly as I had believed it, it would question the truth of all of it. Which is just silly.
God gave us curious, inquisitive minds on purpose. I think, just like parents do with their young children, He loves to see us question the things around us, figure out what we think about it, and grow from it. I think God is revealed so much more when we question, dig into scripture, talk to Him about it, and realize that the world is not in our own control; we don't have everything figured out.
What do you think about this?
