How is it already September? I feel like I was just trying to get caught up on my December events and now here it is September. Marley has started 1st grade and absolutely loves it. In her first week one of her biggest highlights was getting to go to chapel. I am so proud to see her so excited about learning the Lord's word in between math and reading. I feel truly blessed that she is in a class of 14, opposed to 30 (or more) and she lights up when she gets to be the "prayer helper" in class. She is such a bright little girl and just recently has started learning that bad things can sometimes happen to good people.
I think it started when we were in Hawaii a couple months ago. The trial was going on for Casey Anthony for allegedly killing her daughter Kailey. We were following the verdict and Marley asked us what happened to the little girl. That was the first time she has really questioned not only why bad things happen to good people, but why would someone hurt kids? As a Mom, that is a hard question to answer. You spend day after day trying to protect your children from getting cuts and scrapes for running too fast. So, to have to understand for yourself how someone could intentionally harm any little person is hard enough for you to comprehend, let alone explain it to a 6 year old.
The amazing thing after all the questions and talks was that night after night she asked if we could pray for the kids that had bad things happening to them, to protect them from bad people, and that they would get nice moms and dads instead of ones that hurt them. Children are such amazing little creatures, such blessings and so surprisingly insightful. I am fortunate and blessed to work in Children's Ministries and I'm constantly amazed by the compassion and strength children show. I believe we need to protect these little people and embrace them with as much love as we possibly can - for these children are often the ones teaching us about the greatest values we should posses.
It is with their innocence and raw understanding of life that I often feel we need to get back to. Not that we need to be naive to the bad things that happen around us, but to love more and trust with childlike faith.
Matthew 18: 2-4 "He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
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