Wonder

I LOVE THIS KID!

And the message also. 

Let me tell you a story.

When my brother James was a baby my mom placed him in a little, what do you call it? baby seat? Well one of those things that children sit in. Anyways, so my mother turns around for  second to grab a bottle of baby food and when she turns back she notices James eating something. With horror she opens his mouth and realizes it was a spider! He just grabbed it right off the wall and put it in his mouth! Of course she immedaiteley set to the task of pulling little spider pieces from James tiny teeth while he laughed his cute little head off. 

Now what I love about this story is the idea that a baby, a little, chubster baby, could just look at a spider and without any fear pick it up and eat it. Now that he's grown up James hates spiders but when he was a baby there was something about the wonder of the creature that gave him complete courage to conquer it. It was his innocence that allowed him to reach out and touch the untouchable. Most of the time I think it's the fear built up in my own mind about things that is the most effective at keeping me idle. It's not the strength or the horror of what I'm facing, but my own ideas about it that stop me from conquering it. If only I could look at the creatures that I'm facing with the same wonder and fearlessness of a child. Maybe I'd see them for what they really are, little bugs that I could eat up in a second. I think an army of innocents will do some of the greatest damage to the Kingdom of darkness, because they contain the wonder and courage of childlike faith.

What this world needs is a little wonder, the wonder of the innocents.