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What If Adults Acted Like Children? by Steve Higginbotham July 4, 2007 | ||
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Last evening, my seven-year-old
daughter was upset and crying over something that was rather
insignificant. As I was trying to console her, I told her that this
issue was nothing about which she should be crying. It was petty,
childish, and her tears, well...were more an attempt at manipulation than
tears of sadness.
So the adult that I am, attempted to
"reason" with the child that she is. I
attempted to convince her that crying over such an insignificant issue was
childish. I tried to explain to her that her mother and I deal with
the very same issue she was dealing with and we don't cry about it.
I then asked her the following question, "What do you think would happen
if adults acted like children?" Her response ended our
conversation. She said, "They'd all go to heaven."
I turned and looked at my wife sitting across
the room. My wife just smiled and said, "There's your MercEmail
article for this week."
My little girl was right. If adults
would just act like children, they'd all go to heaven! "But Jesus
said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them;
for of such is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew
19:14).
Out of the mouth of babes...
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