Trustful Surrender: How to be like a CHILD ... Some thoughts
I was thinking about this today, while at a concert listening to Ravel's (!!!) Mother Goose's Suite.
[1] At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? [2] And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, [3]And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. [5] And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Chapter 18:
http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=18&l=3#x
How does one become as like little children? How does one be like a child? What does it mean to become as like little children?
These questions may baffle a young adult coming from the throes of teenage life (how so? since a young adult has just graduated from being a child!), may baffle an adult, a middle aged adult, or a person of any age, not a child. How does one pick out the essentials of being like a child?
The answer came to me rather suddenly, Deo volente, Deo gratias et Mariae.
Trustful Surrender
Juxtaposing my experience as a new mother, my thoughts about Mother Mary and Jesus, my thoughts....
What does it mean to become as like little children?
It is an express command from dearest Jesus - to stop being adult like, to portray and live out (!) (note the bolded point: because the word converted is used in the Gospel) characteristics of children - or else we cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
There are 3 main points to this section:
(1) Children are totally "in the mercy" of their parents, even though they have the opportunity to exercise their own free will
(2) Children are innocent. (Innocent is defined as: free from moral wrong, not corrupted and doing everything with absolutely no malicious intention)
(3) It is so easy to make a child extremely happy! The little things in life, the "Little Way" especially of St Therese of the Child Jesus and Holy Face
(I will need to mark now, but I will come back to this as soon as I can. : ( please pray for me)
and I will like to end this post with this excerpt from the same Gospel quoted above, in my state of life as a mother and in my job as an educator, I need to remind myself of this:
http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=18&l=3#x
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