It has caused us to be critical in our thoughts and actions toward others. Growing up has caused us to believe that Facebook and blogging has more to offer us than going outside to explore nature. Growing up has allowed negativity to creep in, stress to overwhelm, mistrust to rule, and apathy to control. we do not always smile at strangers, we can be slow to trust others, and we worry all the time. I desire deeply to see God in everything, but I no longer possess many of the aforementioned characteristics of children. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. When I care for children, the thing that strikes me the most is the purity of their hearts. Is it any wonder that Christ wants us to be like children? They depend well on other people, and they are masters at the enjoyment of simplicity. They live out their imaginations, always wanting to play, to explore, and to wonder. Many of them wave and smile at strangers, viewing all those around them as friends. they are not jaded, cynical, or critical of themselves or others. The only experience they have of the world is their own first-hand experience. by bubbles, by the washing machine, by a passing butterfly, by being able to push their own tiny shopping cart in Trader JoeвЂ™s. The innocence that children possess is always something incredible to watch and experience.Д¬hildren live in a state of awe.

I am not familiar with the reality of caring for children first-hand, but I do know a few things about children. I am one of the Blessed Is She writers who is not a mother. вЂњSee that you do not despise one of these little ones,ДЇor I say to you that their angels in heavenДЄlways look upon the face of my heavenly Father.вЂќ Is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.ДЄnd whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me. You will not enter the Kingdom of heaven. вЂњAmen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,

He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said, вЂњWho is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?вЂќ Remember not against us the iniquities of the past O LORD, how long? Will you be angry forever? The scorn and derision of those around us. We have become the reproach of our neighbors, They have poured out their blood like water R.В For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us. The flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth. They have given the corpses of your servants O God, the nations have come into your inheritance (9)В For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us. In all the words of the prophets whom he sent us,ДЄfter the devices of his own wicked heart,ДЄnd did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God.вЂќ To give us the land flowing with milk and honey,ДЇor we did not heed the voice of the Lord, our God, We have been disobedient to the Lord, our God,ДЄnd only too ready to disregard his voice.ДЄnd the evils and the curse that the Lord enjoined upon Moses, his servant,ДЄt the time he led our ancestors forth from the land of Egypt Nor followed the precepts which the Lord set before us.ДЇrom the time the Lord led our ancestors out of the land of Egypt We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, Have sinned in the LordвЂ™s sight and disobeyed him. We men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem,ДЄnd priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed:

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