To be a Child Again

If you know me, you know that I love kids. I guess because I'm really immature and am not the smartest person on the planet, I just understand children better. I speak childrenease fluently! With my major, I have to go do practicum hours at a school and I have been assigned a kindergarten class. I just love it! The kids are absolutely hilarious and I enjoy just observing each child to find out what their personality is like. It's funny to be able to look at these children and see all of the potential each child has. I get along with children so well because they are blunt with what they say, and they don't judge you. If you show them attention, they automatically love you.

Children want to make you happy and want to do things for you. They want to be encouraged by you, they want to make you proud. If you tell a child something, they automatically believe you because you are "older and wiser." God tells us in Matthew 18:3 to have a childlike faith. Children so easily believe something, they aren't stuck in their ways like we may be. We are to love God and show others what it means to be a child of God. So many times, I wonder if people know that I am a child of God. I want people to know. I want it to be like something glowing all around me. Do people know? We should not have to wonder, we should be shining lights for God any and all the time.

My passion is for children. I want to start a christian orphanage so badly. I just think that would be the most amazing thing ever! All I know is that God has put this passion in my heart for a reason. Whether I just adopt or foster children, or work at or start an orphanage, be a teacher, be a missionary to children, I don't know. But God is going to use me in one way or another. I want to go back to having a childlike faith and completely trusting God with every aspect of my life. My younger sister has been a child of God now for about three years. I can tell with her that she has a childlike faith. I love to watch her when she has a prayer request or something and prays. It's so precious. She puts her trust in God to answer her prayer more than we do anymore. We think we understand so much about God, but really we never can truly grasp an understanding of God. He is unfathomable! There are so many things that we will never understand, but we should try to remember to have a childlike faith and trust in God with everything we have in us.

Matthew 18:3 "And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."