Kick the Cross

This past week my wife came home from work and told me a little incident that happened in our church daycare. She and her co worker were out taking the the infants and 2 year old's for their daily stroll through the church grounds. While they were out walking they always go look at the large cross that is displayed by the church parking lot because the kids enjoy it and they can add a little story of Jesus to tell them. This day one of the kids decided to walk up to the cross and give it a nice swift kick. She had no reason why he did it and I'm sure the 2 year old did not either. Its just a 2 year old acting like a 2 year old. In the process of doing this he scattered some wood chips onto the sidewalk. This we found out really pissed off somebody in the church office who happened to be watching. When Hazel got back to her room with the kids her director came in and said " Somebody in the office complained you girls were not doing your job outside and you are no longer allowed to take the kids out onto the church grounds. there was no specific reason given but Hazel could only imagine that it had to do with this incidence with the kid kicking the cross and getting wood chips and dirt on the sidewalk. A s we talked about the incident we came to the conclusion that this just gave somebody in the office a reason to get together with the daycare director and get their ounce of flesh from the daycare employees.
Just the thought that somebody in the church office complaining about the actions of a 2 year old makes me want to go up and to the cross and kick it and ask why? If you read some of my other blogs you will see that I have had other interesting experiences that make me want to
to go up and kick the cross. This of course would be followed by a great big WHY? Why do we need to count coffee cups and have church employees say you better not take one from there because they will be upset if one is missing come Tuesday morning. Why do I say I am going to volunteer to do something in the church and then find some excuse to get out of it. Why do prominent church members stand with their arms crossed at their chest because they do not like the style of the new music leader. I think I just might go up and kick the cross this Sunday morning and then pray that I and all others in our church will honor that cross and not offend it.