Children are a Blessing!

children are truely a blessing.

that's probably why i get so frustrated when i hear endless amounts of people saying...."i hate kids...i have no patience with kids....they're so annoying....blah blah blah!" honestly, what i really want to tell these people is, "shut up! if you give them a chance, you can be blessed by them! you were once an annoying little kid too and aren't you thankful for the people who gave the extra bit of effort to be nice to you and care about you?"

honestly, people don't know what they are missing by not listening and learning from people younger than themselves. i personally think that they view them as inferrior and incapable of the "wisdom" they have. see, that is where kids have way more "wisdom" than the people older than them. they have a way about them, an innocence to them. they tell you the honest truth, which sometimes hurts, but they also aren't afraid to say the things they want to say. like, "i love you" and, "i think you're cool," which more often than not means that they look up to you and want to be like you. that happens to me a lot, which is kind of baffeling because they really shouldn't try to be like me...i am a silly person that messes up all the time.

i have always believed this, but it really struck me today when i was reading a Christmas card from a girl who was in my step-mother's class for the past 2 years (i vollenteered in her class) and was one of my campers at Camp Good News.

the front said,
"It's a Blessing to Know You"

then i open it, and in elementary school cursive handwriting, it says:
"December 25, 2008"
at the top, though Christmas hasn't even come by yet...and the card reads:
"Wishing you all the blessings and joy you're so deserving of,
Because you're a special reflection of God's most precious love.
Merry Christmas"
and the cursive handwriting comes back saying:
"Thank you for everything you have done for us. Have a holly jolly Christmas Day.
Sincerely, Mia and Marla + Phillip"

this card made me tear up. it is from the whole family, but Mia wrote it out and Mia is the one who still will come over. i can't explain what my relationship with her is like. i go down every tuesday to her class and pretty much just help her out with her work. though the other kids like me, she goes beyond it all. she totally respects me and looks up to me. we share a wavelength. i know that we think the same things that other people are oblivious to.

in this card, it never once said, "i love you," but it has it written all over it if you really take the time to examine it. i don't feel like a blessing, to be completely honest, though many people will beg to differ. but when a 6th grader has the guts to say "you've changed my life" it should hit back at home to the older "wiser" people, like myself, who are too scared to tell important people in their lives just how special they are to them. these "wise" people need to get off their high horses and see how much these kids look up to them. these old people are actually being quite childish and annoying. there is something wrong with being childish, but there is nothing wrong with being child-like in the heart.

kids do these things...they:
-whine
-interrupt
-yell
-argue
-overreact
-are sometimes spoiled

but they:
-trust wholeheartedly in people
-are honest
-love
-look up to people
-respect
-have innocence
-and teach the open minded heart lessons they need to learn.

there is something i have noticed. people who are older still whine, interrupt, yell, argue, overreact, and are spoiled, but they start to lose their full trust in people, honesty, love, admiration, respect, and innocence.

i hope that you will want to spend time with someone younger than yourself soon and learn how to live a life of meaning and importance that changes the lives around you.