A lot has changed in my world and I think of both the changes as well as the implications with a curious mixture of despair and emotional detachment. Sometimes I wonder if I am still sitting at phase one of the grief process, a river in Egypt namely denial (or as Jaclyn’s sister says “De Jordan“ but I don't know. One thing is certain; I was definitely not prepared for the changes that have come out of this season.
 
Maybe that's a better way to live, being blithely unaware of what is to come, seizing the opportunities, living in the present, letting the future be full of promises and being naively blind to the difficulties of the past. Isn’t that what the innocence of childhood was like? Perhaps that is something Jesus was referring to when He said we needed to become like children.

At about the same time, the disciples came to Jesus asking, "Who gets the highest rank in God's kingdom?"
For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room, and said, "I'm telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you're not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in. Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in God's kingdom. What's more, when you receive the childlike on my account, it's the same as receiving me.

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