kingdom children
Lord,
Let us be more like children in humility, in empathy, in forgiveness, in hope, in love. How easy it is to be prideful, thinking that we are self-made. How easy it is to assume we are normal, and everyone else is wrong. How easy it is to be self-righteous, that others deserve condemnation. How easy it is to become jaded with age, drowned by worries of the world.How easy it is to disengage from systemic problems and just blame the victim. Allow our beating hearts to remain bleeding hearts.
“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” - Matt 18:3
Let us trust in You in all things. Let us be Your hands and feet even when all hope seems lost, when every option seems to lead to failure. Let us have faith even as small as a mustard seed.
“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matt 19:14
May your Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven.