When my daughter, Summer Star was about 6 years old, we took her to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus for her birthday. The circus was showing in the Houston Astrodome. Which at that time was where the Houston Oilers and the Houston Astros played football and baseball. There could have been 50,000 people in attendance that night. I remember sitting in the stands, watching the clowns, elephants and trapeze artists. The lights were dark as children all over the stadium held glow in the dark toys and the entire stadium was filled with excitement and wonder.
That’s when Summer asked her mother and me, “Did all these people come for my birthday?”
It was the most precious and unexpected question I had ever heard. I of course, said, “Yes baby, we invited all these people here for your birthday.” Starla slapped me and begin to explain the truth to Summer Star. We have laughed many times remembering that story.
Through the eyes of a child, anything is possible.
I believe that’s what Jesus meant when He told us that we must become like children to enter the kingdom of heaven. You must have the faith of a child and the wonder of a child, in order to see the miraculous.
Matthew 18:3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Never lose your wonder and never lose your faith. God is still in the miracle working business.
The word of the day is childlike faith.
Stay Free,
Kendall Bridges