The Innocence We Lost

Good Morning! 

There is a purity in children that we rarely appreciate until it confronts us in the simplest, most unexpected moments. Children do the very things we adults secretly wish we still had the courage to do. A child will wave wildly and shout, “Hey Daddy!” in the middle of a formal speech without a trace of embarrassment. A child will break formation in a school hallway just to run into their mother’s arms, unconcerned with who is watching or what anyone might think.

Children are unashamed. Unfiltered. Unrestricted. They move with a freedom that is both innocent and bold.

Somewhere along the way, we lose that. Not because God stripped it from us, but because pride, ego, and the fear of judgment slowly erode it. We trade authenticity for approval. We silence our joy to maintain an image. We hesitate to express love, gratitude, or excitement because we’ve learned to care more about perception than purity.

Yet Jesus points us back to childlike courage, not childish behavior, but childlike trust, openness, and sincerity. He invites us to return to a posture where we are free enough to worship without worrying who is watching, bold enough to love without calculating the cost, and humble enough to run to the Father without shame.

Recovering innocence is not about pretending life hasn’t wounded us. It’s about refusing to let those wounds harden us. It’s about unlearning the fear that keeps us quiet and rediscovering the freedom that keeps us close to God.

Today, ask God to restore the courage you lost. The courage to be joyful. The courage to be honest. The courage to be unashamed in your love for God the Father.

Return to the simplicity of a child’s heart and watch the kingdom open before you.

My life as a child I reminisce

Life as a child is care free

I Reminisce my days as a child

How time seem to never end

And every child stranger met was a friend.

There were never any times of sad

All things were simple like nursery rhymes nothing was never bad.

No fear to climb a tall tree

Nor imagine swimming across the sea.

You reminisce your days as a child because life was so care free!

As new chapters of existence begin 

the care-freeness of a child comes to an end.

 Every adult stranger met one wonders if they are a threat.

Those never ending Happy Days are no longer found

What use to be a smile is now a frown?

 What is so different between a child and me? Nothing my mind’s eye can see.

As I compare life with a child and wonder how I can be once again carefree one must be willing to love others and not just self.

To reminisce days as a child is not hard to do

Remember not too long ago you were one too!