WHEN YOU GROW UP

Topics: Busyness; Children; Responsibility; Rest; Stress; Weariness; Work

References: Genesis 2:1–3; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Matthew 11:28–30; Romans 12:2; Hebrews 4:9–11

A photographer was snapping pictures of first graders at an elementary school, making small talk to put his subjects at ease.

“What are you going to be when you grow up?” he asked one little girl.

“Tired,” she said.

—J. R. Love, Rushton, Louisiana