Pure Light in Human Form

A child is pure light in human form. They are innocence, love, trust and purity. We should all be more like children. Peaceful, content, honest to a fault, genuine and sincere. How different the world would be if we were each allowed to keep and treasure our childhood hearts. The innocent joys and imaginative pleasures which were our reality as children could develop into radiance and appreciation, imagination and detachment from earthly things if only we would let them. Instead we fill children's lives with things, with toys, movies and games, with ideas, prejudices, assumptions and attachments. We draw their attention from the pleasures and joys which remind them of God's glory. We fill their heads with earthly and material responsibilities losing sight of their greatest responsibility of all, their responsibility to dedicate themselves in service to others, in service to God. We look at our own inhibitions and hope that the next generation can overcome them and become better and more than what we see ourselves as. But in this single seeming act of selflessness is the essence of our struggle and the downfall of our goal. For a child will become what you are, not what you hope them to be. Unless we as teachers, parents, adults are continually striving to become better people, to become the people we want our children to be, they will never be able to fulfill our hopes for them. For a child cannot learn something the person teaching them does not understand. So if you wish your child to be a better person then you yourself must show them what it looks like to continually be striving to be a better person, to be in a mode of learning. You must show them what it looks like to trust in God and be willing to change your own assumptions of reality. Be a living example for them of what personal growth and service to humanity looks like, for only then will we truly empower a generation capable of transforming our world.