Children, like sponges!

     

     Someone cried, "Where must this seed be sown to bring the most fruit when it is grown?" The Master heard, as he smiled and said, "Go plant it for me, in the heart of a child."  

     This past weekend, I had the joyous privilege of spending time with my first great-grand child, Evelyn Jane. What a delight she is — already almost 20 months old, and fast becoming an intelligent two-year-old. 

     It's been said, "Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old." I believe it. 

     Children enrich our lives. Often, while we try to teach children about life, they teach us what life is really all about. 
     I learned much, during those many years when I was blessed with a teaching career, guiding the impressionable lives of so many young children under my care. 
     I thought of it as planting within their lives, learning seeds of love, trust, confidence and caring — quality traits that would become an integral part of their lives, as later on, they stepped out to face the big world. 

     

"Children are like sponges, absorbing everything around them with fascination as they reach out to grasp their world." 

"Children become what they live." 

     How important, then, are our words and attitudes. 
     Children, also, are great imitators. We must give them something worthwhile to imitate. 
     I've often wondered exactly what Jesus meant when He said, "... Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven... " (Matthew 18:3). Could He have meant that we all need to have the qualities found within a child, to enter His kingdom? Qualities such as: being trustworthy, unpretentious, loving others and having a forgiving heart. 

     "I believe God wants us to approach Him simply, with a wonderment and awe of His creation."  

— Beulah Eagles 

     

     As America's 35th President John F. Kennedy once said,

     "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."   

     



     

     "A person's a person, no matter how small. They demand our respect always!"    

—  Dr. Seuss.

       
     
     



And finally, a smile from comedian Phyllis Diller: 

     "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing."






—  beulah