Faith Like a Child
I recently read an interesting interview in Christianity Today (you can check it out here ). In short, the interviewee is summarizing his research project and book which indicates children have a tendency to believe in a greater power or higher being from very early ages. A couple of insights that caught my eye were that this belief is not just naivety but that children begin to understand several fundamental truths very early (e.g., mother's love, the constancy of physical laws) and that children are not "unformed blobs that can be shaped into anything we like." These things resonate with my own experience with my kids. At age 7, my daughter asked me if we, as Christians, should love Satan? We are, after all, commanded to "love our enemies" by Jesus. Why have I never thought of that? At the occasion of one of his first pimples, my son wrestled with what was created by God and what are effects of the fall of man. (The Cooks believe pimples and allergic