Child like wonder...

1 Samuel 1

27 I prayed for this child,
and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.
28 So now I give him to the LORD.
For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD."

Genesis 21

18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand,
for I will make him into a great nation."18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."

As I was looking at this picture of Zach I was moved by its feeling of innocence and the desire that children possess to learn, to create, and to grow in a way that we as adults have all to often lost. Without a conscious thought or motive they move throughout their world in wonder of all the possibilities to evolve. The mind and the heart of a child holds the seeds to a future that has no limits and that can only be hindered by the discouragement and negativity of those who have not only lost themselves, but the hope within them that allows unimaginable dreams to manifest.

No matter how hard I try I can never teach or do for my child like God himself can do, but I can lead her to the one who makes all things possible. Encourage your children, pray for them, lift them up... and take them by the hand. You may find that they just might lead you back, back to that place of child like wonder.