The Wide-Eyed Wonder of a Child

something about children that God wants us to see. We, who have lived a few decades, know what it’s like to have made mistakes and now we tend to be over cautious, and leave little room for spontaneity. That’s not the case with children. The future is wide open for them, and they seem to know it.

Wide-eyed with wonder, filled with potential, they are ready to try new things and build new possibilities. Unhindered by the past, they are free to chase after whatever the future holds. That’s the childlike spirit that God wants to give all of us. God doesn’t want any of us to think that we are too old, too wounded, too limited, too whatever. None of us is so bound by our past that God can’t open new doors for us in the future. Our Father has great plans for us. He has a future full of hope laid out for us. Now it’s up to us to run into that future with all the confidence of a little child! I’m getting on my running shoes, right now…..who knows, I may run into the opportunity of a lifetime!!!