Awe and wonder

About 3 years ago, I googled something I was sure would have zero results, however to my surprise it had one. The blog post of an old lady living in the U.S.. As I read through her blog, something about her brought tears to my eyes. I couldn’t define it at that time but now I can. It was her sense of awe and wonder. I marveled at how someone so old could be so young. I imagined the battles she fought over her lifetime to keep her inner child alive. Her words carried a true excitement. I’m of the opinion that all the tests of life have to do with our hearts. We’re like the bulb of an onion. We learn to cover ourselves with layers of fleshy leaves as we “grow up” but only few gain the courage over the years to let those fleshy leaves go. A child is vulnerable, naïve and looks out of place.

“Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Jesus

I realized that it wasn’t her innocent excitement that brought me to tears, it was the age of her innocent excitement. How difficult it is to remain a child. Jesus was a child His whole life. He went where the wind took Him. That wind of God doesn’t blow in the physical atmosphere, it blows in the hearts of children. I believe God has boundaries because He’s a child. He’s pure. He speaks and things come to pass. He dreams and it is so.

What does it truly mean to walk with God then? I believe we can only learn this by observing children. They believe in a totally different world. They can see it. God can see it. He told Abraham to look up from where he was, to the North, South, East and West. We as adults spend our lives looking down, but God says look up. You may say “We’ve already seen all there is to see.” No my friend, look up.

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton