Throughout the years, I have been aware of how much one can learn in our lifelong learning process when we listen to the children. Albert Einstein once stated, "Pay close attention to the curiosities of a child. This is where the search for knowledge is the freshest and most valuable."

Children are our spiritual mentors. They teach us so much by their questions, their answers and their lives. They are our master teachers. They do not judge you. They just like you the way you are. They love to be your helpers and are the greatest skill of comforters. We can learn humility from children, which can free us to be comfortable with our incomparable selves. I am reminded of the little boy who offered to do an errand for his grandmother. He told her, "I want to do it for you because you don't have many years left." He told it as it appeared to him - at the time she was 55 years old. Another little boy told his dad, "Dad, just remember the good things a little boy does." How often we say to the children, "later," however, the child will let you know that later means right now. Let's not put off until tomorrow the joys we can have now as we listen to the children. We lie in a world of instant coffee, fast foods, and crashed diets, but who is able to teach us about instant forgiveness, fast reconciliation and a crash method of forgetting grudges? The answer is our Lord and His children. Take time in your busy world to listen to the children.

Warm thoughts: It takes a village to raise a child. African proverb. If everyone would see children as master teachers, there would be less child abuse in this world. Have many warm thoughts for the children!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record January 15th, 1998.

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