I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person’s character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.
Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.
Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?
The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
…while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest–the children.
We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.
Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.
A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.
If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence…you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn’t matter and isn’t important.