January 27, 2009 Childlike Vision

Childlike Vision

Last night I watch The Last Templar and if I didn't get anything else, I got what was said by the old man who lived on one of the Greek Islands off the coast of Turkey. He said 'life gives life, love gives love, and hope gives hope'. He was isolated near the shore and didn't mind, he found God's beauty all around him and even in watching the trees grow and the women in the village brought him food to eat. What a life, this simple, childlike, unrestricted beauty!!

Then I wake up this morning and the first thing Ken says to me in his profoundness that happens at the end of every perceived despair, 'We must have compassion, we don't know the difficulties that occur in people's lives that we don't see, we need to just love them'. What a life, this simple, childlike, unrestricted beauty!!

We certainly don't understand fully this 'give your life away' or use your gifts and be a servant and the measure you give you shall receive. We don't fully understand casting your bread on the water because we are too impatient waiting for it to come back, as if we think the return is immediate. One thing we know is Truth which has been planted in us. We may not have it right yet, and there certainly isn't figuring it out because that involves the mind and not the heart, but we are becoming living offerings and willing servants. We really are here to have compassion, to love extravagantly and point all to the only One Who Is Abundant Life, Jesus.

Well, this is in me today, I guess I'm dancing on the inside today. After all isn't it clear joy comes in the morning and He changes our mourning into dancing. He let's us experience it all, this full abundant LIFE without limit. We are His children and today I feel free enough to just act like a child. This is beautiful song and the animation is great. I could ask, 'wouldn't it be great to have this freedom as a child and with nature?', but it isn't a question after all, it is, 'we can have this freedom as a child and with nature when we choose to see through the forest (circumstances) that obstructs our view'. What a life, this simple, childlike, unrestricted beauty!!

Video & SongThe River Is Here from WOW
The movie, Brother Bear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOi1yC6_iPI&feature=related