What comes to your mind when you think of children? Maybe it’s their tiny little fingers, contagious laughter, endless imagination, or there amazing courage to say everything that is on their mind. But whatever you do think of I can only imagine it will bring an instant smile to your face. I think of the words Jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 18:13 “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Jesus knew how pure the heart of a child was and how they were like a clean canvases with no evil or bad in their hearts.
One of the things that never cease to surprise me about children is that they truly believe they can be anything they want to be. If you ever ask a child what they want to do when they grow up they will always tell you something amazing, like an astronauts or presidents. And unfortunately as we grow up most of us loss that ability to believe we can be whatever we want to be and the world becomes a complicated place. Why do we allow this to happen to us?
I also love how children always ask questions about everything because at that age the world is so new to them that they want to find out all the answers. It’s sad because the world is still this magical place full of endless possibilities and full of unanswered questions we just stop asking because we’re afraid of what the answers might be. I think we should all be like children discovering new things and allowing ourselves the chance to do what we wanted to do as children, no matter how outrageous they may seem to us now.
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
-Angela Garcia
i also love how children love learning so much. its as if they realise how important knowledge is, and that understanding their world will lead to endless curiousity.
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