Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. - (Isa 46:9)
I become vulnerable before the world and simple before God
I become vulnerable before the world and simple before God
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Filled with expectation, quick to laugh, direct, affectionate, uncomplicated. What else can we say of children, except, tragically, quote the lines of Wordsworth: "Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, Who is our home. Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison house begin to close upon the growing boy."
Plato saw our period between lives as time spent with the gods, or God. The prophet lingers in all children. And it is these qualities that we seek to rekindle as followers of truth - to believe in goodness, in love, in "magic", in "miracles", to become totally vulnerable before the world, to rely utterly on our Father for protection and supply.
We reject our prison house of negation and rise shining eyes again to God from whence comes our supply. The Master was a master of simplicity. So should we be.
The Path of Truth Vol. 50, No. 2 page 108.
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