So I found this picture while on tumblr and I just thought it was extremely interesting. I could have seen it and just moved on, but actually going back in my mind to when I was 6 made me think. At the age of 6, I was a little girl obsessed with princesses and fairy tales. I honestly believed I would grow up and be a singer, blissfully unaware of my inability to sing. It shows you how beautiful life really is. We start out believing in everyone and everything, and we can see the beauty and laughter in everything. As we grow older, we become aware of more; we see and hear about bad things in the world. If we let those things and our struggles overcome us, we aren't maintaining the child-like faith in God that we need to. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this picture reminds me and should remind everyone of what it was like to believe in life and how God will get us where we need to be, even if it is sometimes hard. We just have to hold onto that child-like faith, and if we do, we can see even more beauty. We can become who God intends us to be. Sorry if this is confusing, I just found it interesting and needed to rant. I'm just so blissfully happy recently, even in my struggling because I have finally found what I never had: a faith in God that helps me to know that it will be ok, no matter what happens. I finally think my 6 year old self would be proud and ok with where I have ended up. I want that for everyone.
In addition, this Bible verse seems to apply to how God wants us to hold onto the child-like faith that is free of doubts:
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: 'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.'"- Jeremiah 2:2
