would do well to perceive a mature relationship with Christ in terms of friendship and play is important. There is no time when we are as full of life as when we play! Play, or one might say a “playful attitude,” is at the heart of religious experience. Play in the spiritual realm has the same qualities that play has at any time: it does not deal with what is, but rather with what could be. It always involves another, transcendent world or sphere of meaning. Play transcends immediate reality and