CHILDREN

CHILDREN ARE VERY SPECIAL TO GRANDPARENTS

WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THEIR PIECE OF PIE

I LOVE BEING SURROUNDED WITH MY CHILDREN, MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. THEY MAKE ME FEEL YOUNG AGAIN.

Children love stories and so do I. They love to hear you read the same stories over and over again word for word. As adults we can try to hurry the story along by skipping a word or two but they do not let you. I loved reading stories to children and count it as one of life's blessings.

Children want your attention and want to draw you into their world. Come and see! Come!

Splash in the puddles with me, play in the dirt, colour with me, pick up rocks and leaves and flowers with me. They love to laugh and have fun, to play and pretend, to explore and to ask questions. They can be loud and noisy and demanding and tiring.

Jesus invited children to come and listen to his stories and Jesus invites us to become like children as we listen with our hearts seeking to see beyond the natural into the super-natural. Children can believe in ghosts, and faries, and dogs that talk and secret spells and all shorts of wonderful or scary things. They are honest about their feelings whether they are mad or sad or excited and happy.

Faith is to see with the eyes of a child, to listen with their ears, to pray with a trusting heart to believe what one cannot understand and to feel with your whole being.

The jinni, or spirit, in the book "The Brick Wall" says to the one who had been praying and not receiving answers and thought no one was listening was told "I did not go away only Now you decided to listen".

We all have the choice to see and hear what we want. I blieve there is a danger in becoming too intellectual and too critical. Religion is being torn down and distroyed by science and cold hard facts that make people feel smarter and they can live comfortably with their denial.

I believe that "God" that higher power is a mystery not to be solved but a mystery to be treasured deep in your soul. It is like giving yourself a hug and feeling loved.