Out of the Mouths of Babes

My daughter has always had an active imagination. You can be talking to her about grapes and she asks you a question about frogs. When you ask her how she changed the subject to frog she will explain to you that she likes grapes, especially the red ones, but she likes apples better and when she had an apple last time, her dog wanted a bite of it, and when think about her dog it will remind her of the frog she saw coming home from school. So, like I said she has an active imagination and her thought process will take you on a twisting and turning ride.

She was about 4 years old and we were reading the bible together as a family. It was the verse where Jesus said he was going to prepare a place for you and my daughter started getting antsy. She couldn’t sit still, but she waited until we were done reading before jumping up and down on the bed. When we asked her what she was excited about, she started laughing and giggling so much that it took us about 5 minutes to calm her down. Once we were able to she looked at us with a large smile and said I am going to have a pink castle. She said that God said he was going to go prepare a place for her and she was going to get a pink castle with sparkles. She looked at us, smiled and said I can’t wait to go to heaven; I want to have Jesus come see my pink castle. Then she asked, will you and dad come visit me there in my castle. She was so happy to hear that Jesus already had a place for her; she talked about it for years.

It is humbling to see this small child understand and relate to the bible and God’s word more than most adults. She was able to hear something and immediately know that she would have her castle in the clouds. She is 13 now and still occasionally talks about her castle in the sky, but she has since changed the color. We can see a new world when we look through the eyes of children. They are able to see things with clarity that we as adults are able to distinguish because of the bias we have developed over the years. To be able to view the world through the eyes of a child is a glorious revelation.