Childlike faith is something we as adults have a hard time comprehending.  We can try so hard, but at the end of the day we have been tainted by the woes of real life, we lose the ability to truly be; if you will “fearless”.

Have you ever wondered what a child is thinking when they willingly jump into their daddy’s arms, completely unaware that the possibility is there that he could drop them? Or when a child takes their first steps? Imagine for a mere moment, what if you were to press pause, what would a child say in that moment? What feelings would they express?

I would think it would go something like this “I LOVE MY DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1“….plain and simple. There is no fear involved; operating purely on the emotion of love.

Oh to be a child again, coursing through life, stopping to enjoy the sweetness that surrounds their every day, driven only by the unadulterated joy of figuring out what life is all about; each day learning, and growing in love.

The only word that would accurately describe the way these children is JOY. If we were to look at our lives with a childlike faith we would see JOY in avenues we never realized before; ultimately slowing down to see God’s beauty in all he has created.

For these children stopping to see the beauty He has created is an everyday occasion; constantly intrigued by all of life’s little nuances. When they look up in the sky and see the moon and stars peeking through the clouds, it is as if they has won the lottery. When they are running million miles an hour around the village, only to be stopped in their tracks when they sees a butterfly that has landed on a blade of green grass; they stop and stare at it for hours, looking at it, studying it, and seeing it for all its splendor, running back to me to notify me of the “BEAUTIFUL Butterfly” of which they have  been following for at least a half an hour.  All I can say is this, I want to live with a childlike faith…to love each thing, to see the beauty in all that God has created, to stop and take it all in; to fall in love with the moments we are given and to be inspired to live without the fear of falling, knowing that in every adventure I take on I have a father who will always catch me before I fall.

We need to live our lives with abandon, embracing the everyday beauty that surrounds us; daily evoking a spirit of JOY, for out of JOY comes PEACE and out of PEACE comes LOVE.