A long time ago I used to teach music and movement to little kids.
I would travel to different daycare centers as "The Music Man". Eventually I was hired by a school and trained as a Montessori preschool teacher.
Working with children was my favorite job. I remember once my son came with me; that day I had five 30-minute classes in a row to teach. I would have the children singing, dancing and spinning around. Then I would bring out my puppet who would read them a story.
I would do the same songs and story five times in a row for two and a half hours straight. My son, after watching me, asked me how I could keep the energy up through all those classes.
It was the kids, I told him. At that age (3 to 7) they just went with whatever I wanted to do. I would shout, "Jump up and down!" or "Spin around!" and they would, with gusto!
Each group was different, each group was fun.
They weren't worried about how they looked, how they sounded, or even being all sweaty and out of breath. They followed my direction, because they knew when I came they would have fun if they followed along.
I learned a lot from watching them.
In Luke 18:15-17 we read, "People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
To have that childlike faith takes getting our eyes off ourselves and trusting that the Lord has our best interest in mind.
Can we learn to do that? I think we need to remember how.
Maybe that's why we are called, "Children of God" no matter how old we are.
