Ever heard a child make an adorable comment which totally changed your view of something? Seeing things through the wondering eyes of a newer resident of the planet can be refreshing and delightful. Our son was especially good at this when he was little, constantly delivering messages from the new, unfamiliar world which he inhabited.
One day he spotted our parish priest walking through our suburban town. Having never seen him street clothes, only in clerical robes, our son had formed a comical misapprehension, we learned when he excitedly pointed him out to us as ‘the king!’. I also loved his comment when he first glimpsed the New York skyline as we drove towards the city, which was suddenly laid out before us in all its vastness. Gasping in awe, our little boy exclaimed, ‘a castle!’.
I learned so much from hearing these precious comments every day during our son’s young childhood. They reminded me to continually cultivate a sense of wonder.
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