What is a child?

     There's nothing more sweeter than to hold a newborn baby. You can smell the innocence of that precious baby as you snuggle close to that Holy face that has just come from Heaven. Then, knowing that it is part of your legacy, ultimately, the legacy of God. 

     The purity of a child is unmistakable as they reach out their arms for you to hold them. As they wait patiently, for you to dress them, to feed them, to cover them at bedtime. They grow and depend on your nurturing. 

     A child can be, in all steps of growth, each one of us. As we depend on our God to clothe us, feed us and comfort us. He calls us His children. He is our Father. We can be compliant or defiant in His parental guidance. Given the free will, we must choose to let Him be our Father. He wants us to depend and trust with all our might with that same childlike confidence that we first came into this world with. Our hands still reach for His caress. Our hearts still long to be fed by His words. Our bodies feel the warmth of the clothes of Peace that we get when He gives us His assurance that He is there when we are scared or troubled. 

     What is a child? Look in the mirror and you will see one. Yes! You and I and all human beings are children of God. Our Father is pleased when we recognize ourselves as just this. Dependent on those strong arms and loving smile that He so longs to give us. 

     We reach for you daddy. Hold us close and never let us go.