The Eyes of a Child
Have you ever had a young child staring at you from a shopping cart in the check-out lane? It’s unsettling. They’re fixated on you with not a bit of self-consciousness. They look at you like it’s the first time they have seen a human being.
In some ways it is the first time they’ve seen a human being - at least the first time they’ve seen you. They see everything for the first time. They see reality without the filters of ego, judgment, and comparison.
Compare that to the way we look at the world once “we’ve seen it all.”
When was the last time you looked at something through the eyes of a child and saw something truly “awesome?” Not the everyday use of the word that is now used to describe everything, but something that stopped you in your tracks, brought you into the present moment, maybe took your breath away, or brought a tear to your eye?
What would it be like to see everything for the first time again? Maybe that’s what Jesus was talking about when he said, “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”