As a Child

A beautiful day,
a car ride home,
and a ripe realization.

Glancing back at my baby asleep in the backseat, I suddenly realized what Jesus meant when he said that we were to be as the little children. 
He meant that our attitude was to simply be centered in His love and allow ourselves to feel worthy enough to take it!
Jesus told us to be childlike to enrich our lives with the experiential knowledge of being bathed in true and illuminating, life-changing love.  Love.

Life goes on, people get beat down and their sense of acceptance and love becomes dangerously warped.  We don't see ourselves as lovable, and therefore we don't live up to the dreams in our heart because we don't see ourselves as worthy enough to attain them. 

It's all about remaining....untainted.....believing that when he made us,...he made us purposefully and without ANY error.  And a child does that so effortlessly!
A child is willing to be indulgent...the center of the universe....the apple of their parents eye.  In fact, they expect...demand it.  They don't second-guess themselves.  They just simply mush into you when you tell them how wonderful they are.  They believe it with every cell and sinew in their being. 
And that is what Jesus wants from us. 
To believe what he tells us.  To have confidence in who he has made us.  To love the image we see in the mirror and to celebrate ourselves. 
We all deserve to be inundated with love, with kind words, with tender and warm embraces, and with a deep belief that we are beautiful and deserving enough to not only start accepting it, but to start expecting it as well!