Some people scoff at the thought of children.

I used to be one of those people…most especially as a child.

I distinctively remember looking around while playing with my fellow peers, thinking, “Wow, these people are idiots.”

I no longer think that way about children. God has rightly changed my heart in this matter.

Instead? I see people who are uniquely themselves and aren’t a wink ashamed about it.

I think that’s why Jesus asks us to be like the little children. We’re not to walk around with our adult masks on, always pretending to be something we’re not.

It’s an exhausting act, and everywhere you look, you can see that exhaustion in the Lord’s “big kids.”

But the ones that are small but mighty in heart? They’re nothing but themselves, an offering they give to God and the world.

This was unfathomable to me at one point, but nothing is impossible with God. So I asked Him to give me eyes that see and ears that hear like those who He loves who never feel the urge to stay hidden.

A prayer, I think, that benefits us all.