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Good morning. I signed up to an art workshop with a local cancer charity when my dad was terminally ill. I was curious and nervous at the same time. I had done very little art since school days. I was welcomed by the art therapist, who threw open the door of the board room. There stretching from end to end on the table was every kind of art material you could imagine. Bright coloured pastels, paints and pencils, boxes with fabrics, wools and ribbons, weaving frames, newspapers and magazines for collages and a coffee station with chocolate. I gasped with a mix of surprise and awe. 鈥淗ave you set this out just for me?鈥� I said. 鈥淵es鈥� she replied: 鈥渨elcome to the art space. Make yourself at home鈥�. Sensing that I didn鈥檛 know where to start, she added: "choose a few colours and move them around the page 鈥� allow yourself to play鈥�. The invitation had a profound impact on me 鈥� 鈥渁llow yourself to play鈥� 鈥� no agenda, no expectation, no outcome, no judgment 鈥� permission to play! It was both a moving and a healing experience. My creative spirit was re-awakened. Whatever you are doing today I suggest you make time for playfulness as part of your self-care? Jesus tells us to receive the Kingdom of God like a little child. Let鈥檚 honour the child that God esteems in us. In the words of a prayer by the American poet and pastor Maren Tirabassi: Let me not be too old to fly a kite or too grand or grounded in responsibility to swing high from an oak tree branch or build a castle in the sand that waves will wash away. Jesus, help me to be like a little child today. Amen.