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Nancy of Mesquite Country:
January 25, 2009
Generations
Today the great-granddaughter worried about those two old people she visits in that little town where her mother grew up. She thought they might need help to get some groceries to their house because they couldn't possibly get out in this snow and ice after the storm. So her mom used Face Book to contact the old folks’ daughter and from that point the groceries were assured of arrival before the next storm came through.
Children are amazing—simply amazing. The youngest show love in small ways, but their hearts are just as brim full as that of the most loving adult. Oh, sometimes we think that children learn love from being loved, but that just doesn't quite ring true. More likely, each child comes already full of love and just learns more and more ways of showing it with age. Given loving parents, the child will quickly learn to show concern for others and share the love in practical ways just as this child did today.
Probably the quickest way to understand how easily a child can love is to see a child’s concern in action. During the blizzard that hit our part of Texas this past week, some young kids got out shovels and managed to help a few cars and trucks escape the snow trap on one of the major highways. The children—not teenagers nor young adults, but children—didn't stay around to be thanked. They cut a path through the high drifts and left. But they showed their concern for others just as surely as if they had passed out hot coffee and warm blankets.
But it does not take blizzard conditions to see the joy and love in the face of children. This past summer we watched young ones open envelopes of butterflies at the River Bend Nature Center. They were fascinated and concerned that their butterflies would be able to fly. Each child realized that life is delicate and is held in the steady hand of someone who helps life continue. Oh, they realized that a butterfly’s life is temporary; but for now, this moment, they could open an envelope and release that life to freedom.
A minister once said that love is selfish among children and parents, but he was a grown man with his own problems. For children need no motive for love. It is enough for them that they have something to give of freely—something they can afford to give in full measure, shaken down. Oh to be able to continue to free the butterflies and watch over the old folks!
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