Childlike Faith

Whilst pushing my niece on the swing the other day, she randomly said to me, "you know those bad guys that try to steal you at night? Well when them try to take me, hundreds of mosquitoes will bite them and then I won't be scared. Them will probably die cause of all those bites.". This conversation and many others with that sweet little girl remind me of the innocence of children. 

Sometimes I need to remind myself to go back to the simplicity of having childlike faith. When I was younger and watched movies, things like talking animals or objects was just accepted. I never questions how those things or animals talked...they just did. Now when I watch movies like "Cars" with my nephew I wonder why their eyebrows don't show enough emotion. I get lost in contemplating the small things, instead of just accepting the big picture. While my nephew is enjoying himself, I end up missing the entire movie because I can't wrap my head around how those cars reproduce and if they did mange to, what kind of car would result? Would car brands have to merge?

As Children we don't think about how pure we are. Everything in life is so simple, and accepting things is easy. The choices we have to make aren't that difficult and if it happens to be difficult, taking the advice of a parent or guardian is easy. There are questions about why things are, or how we got here, but those questions have simple answers when we are young. As we start to grow older and form our own opinions about life, things become more difficult. We become aware of the bad in the world and start to wonder if we are safe.When we doubt the goodness of the world, there is always God to rely on. But as adults that's not always easy to remember. Little kids don't think to doubt things like that if we just tell them that God is good and his goodness overrides any bad. I wish that I had more childlike faith when life got hard. I need to start going back to the basics again and tackle life with a new perspective daily.