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This small girl does not know much. She is uninformed about the date, she cannot count by sevens, and she is ignorant about who the current president is. Those were the three imperative questions the doctor asked my dying mother when she was limp with stage four cancer. She could not answer them either.
But this little one knows how to smile. She cannot say the words "I love you Mama," or draw a picture with a line of matching flowers and a sun in the corner. Yet when it comes to expressing what is most important, she is spot on. I do not even think she is smiling as a result of anything her mother said, promised or is about to do. I doubt she could stop if someone suggested it.
We all started with such deep wisdom. We smiled at our mothers, and the snow, and the Christmas tree, and the bright lights not because someone told us to. We smiled because there was no room on our face for anything else.
But some of us have forgotten. My husband walks in the door after I have had a snarky day with kids and I forget to smile. I whine instead. Still there lies before me an open invitation to be young even as I grow old.
"Except you become like little children you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18
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