Today, after a very long period, we went out as a community, to a water park. Playing in the swimming pool, having a good time, especially on the slides, watching children and their eagerness to play in the water. Nonetheless at some moments it struck me that young couples and children would have found it hard to understand why 'old men' like myself are also having fun!!
In fact the realisation that I am not 'their' age, that I'm almost double the age of most of those who were there in the theme park hit me quite strong on a couple of occasions. But that didn't make me feel any 'older'; in fact, I felt happy to realise that contrary to my bald head and greying hair, I still am quite young!!
Thanks be to God for this grace of being and feeling young at heart; being a Salesian! That's one of the amazing quality of being a Salesian: being with the young and being so focused on them, one never ages!!
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