{"id":825,"date":"2012-09-30T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2012-09-30T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T18:26:09","slug":"part-2-angel-on-the-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: Angel on the Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I mentioned in the last post that after spending time with the girl on the playground, I didn’t understand why she was gone the same day she was new to the school. \u00a0After that day, though, I didn’t think of her very often, especially when I was a child. \u00a0There would be fleeting moments during later years in elementary and middle school that I would wonder if she might come back, but these thoughts were short-lived. It’s interesting how children differ from adults in matters like this. \u00a0For example, it’s funny the way we used to end a conversation on the telephone when we were kids.\u00a0One of us would be talking, and the other would just say “bye” when it was time to go. \u00a0Nobody thought it was rude or insensitive as we might think as adults. \u00a0It was just time to end the phone call because maybe Mom said it was time to go to bed. \u00a0This also reminds me of how childlike faith works. To a child, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”.<\/p>\n

I have thought more about the girl on the playground during my adult years. This usually happens when I meet someone and we make an instant connection, or when I have one of those synchronistic moments that has no reasonable explanation. The feeling is similar to the one I had with the girl, and I am aware that in these particular moments, everything is as it should be.<\/p>\n

Two of these times occurred at a summer camp I attended with my church. I had been involved in church since I was a child, and we started attending a smaller church when I was a teenager. \u00a0My new church sponsored a camp every summer. The first year I went, my life completely changed.<\/p>\n

More to come soon…”Bye” for now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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