A funny thing happened though when I was preparing for this day of snowconic madness. In asking for volunteers, I was told that I had two 11 year-old girls who were totally enthusiastic about running a snowcone machine. They wanted to help. One even had her mom offer to drive her over to campus and agree to supervise her for the day.
Now I had no doubt that they could enthusiastically create and hand out snow cones to incoming freshman and fraternity studs, but I had questions in my mind about the wisdom of such a choice. Would that really be a good idea? What image would we be sending?
And in truth it reminded me of my morning's devotions. This morning I ran across this verse:
"Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord." (II Chr. 36:9)
What would that be like? Your king is eight years old ... and he's bad. He's a bad kid king. What temper tantrum do you suppose he threw to be labeled as bad? I doubt he was having affairs with Egyptian girlfriends. I'm pretty sure he'd stand out like a sore thumb in a Babylonian night club. What did he do?
And that leads me to my question of the week: What would it be like if your boss/leader was eight years old? How would your world be different?
6 comments:
An 8 year old pastor of a church...cool! We'd roller blade all over the sanctuary and have food fights during communion. What's not to love? At work we'd play Nintendo all day and watch cartoons. For lunch we'd have pizza ordered in and have ice cream and chocolate syrup for dessert. I'd be 300lbs. but I'd be jolly! I'd probably get fired the first week though because I'd probably forget whose really the boss and try to make my boss go stand in the corner for being a brat to our visitors in the office. I think I'll stick to my OLD boss. He's goofy enough.
I don't know what he would do, but I would try to convince him to ride a goat, I'd ride a donkey and we'd race.
Have you ever ridden a donkey Jo? Those are stubborn old mules. They are hard to control and go where they want to go. As for goats they will buck your boss off. Just ask my brother. He never could stay on our billy goat no matter how hard he tried. Actually I think I'd pay to see such a race. How much are the tickets?
I think my boss would charge a lolly pop or a hot wheels.
i'm interested to know what sort of "evil" this 8 year old king did in the signt of the Lord. i'm guessing it has something to do with not eating his vegetables or staying up too late on a school night or maybe giving one his trusted advisors a swirly.
i would have a hard time being lead by that kid, too. however, if it were an 8 year old queen, i could offer to paint her nails or play with her hair or take her to a movie, we could be good friends.
I love the fact that jo was totally kidding, and that joey wasn't. Yes, they really had a billy goat, and yes, the kids used to ride him.
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