Growing Older and The Eternal Appetite of Infancy - Hannah Grimes

“grown up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.” (G.K. Chesterton, “The Ethics of Elfland” from Orthodoxy)

When I read Perelandra and the Lady talks about growing older from hearing the things that Ransom and Weston talk about, it made me think of how Chesterton describes the ways sin causes us to grow old. The more the Lady heard about the world and was exposed to sin, the older and less innocent she became. I never thought about God as “younger than we” before, but I’ve kept thinking about this idea because I think it’s a really interesting way to consider Him. If we do, as Lewis suggests in Perelandra, grow older and become profaned through continual exposure to sin and self-worship, then the result is our loss of delight in daily miracles.

This is making me ask myself some questions.
Am I strong enough to exult in monotony?
Do daily miracles instill wonder?
For what do I have the eternal appetite of infancy?
If I don’t, what is preventing me from having it?