Article December 14, 2015 Issue

In the kingdom of God—now and always

Joan Sherman Hunt

“Now you can have just all of me!”

Those words greeted me as I stepped out of my home office. An hour earlier, I had told my just-turned-three-year-old nephew that I was going to be busy for a little while on the phone, but that when I was through, we could go to the park.

So when I emerged from my office those many minutes later, he ran up the stairs, threw his arms wide, and—mimicking my earlier words and phone commitments—announced, “I’m finished on my phone—so now you can have just all of me!”

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