Leave it to a Kid, Again!

  
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." - Fred Astaire


So, here's yet another child setting an example for us adults:

An 8 year-old girl in South Carolina has set up a lemonade stand in a pet shop to help raise money for a disabled Iraq War veteran. The money being raised is to help the injured soldier give his German Shepherd formal service dog training. Just by this child's compassionate actions alone, publicity and finances have grown enormously in such a short time.

Have you ever wondered why it becomes so easy for a child to step up when needed? To rise to the occasion while us adults waste time pondering each and every situation?

Today children have a knack for making the impossible possible. They see things differently, their eyes are open with rose-colored glasses. They have their sights set on reaching a goal, accomplishing any and all things without seeing the mountain that may be blocking their path. Perhaps this is why Jesus calls us to simply come to Him like a little child:

 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
² Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, ³ and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Mathew 18:1-4)

God wants us to do all things with a heart of a child, a heart of compassion with rose-colored glasses. A heart that sees the good that can be done when just humbly thinking of ourselves as just that, a child; a child of the Kingdom of God.

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