How does a child receive? With joy and anticipation and delight. A child receives with no strings attached and with openness and thankfulness and appreciation. They receive in their innocence.
Oh, that we as adults would recognize the gifts of life that enter our days – shelter, food, the ability to communicate, our jobs, our friends and families, the very air we breathe – and that we would receive these gifts with that same childlike thankfulness. Then we, too, could abandon our days to absolute joy. I wonder what the result would be in my life and in the lives I touch. I wonder what it would be like if everyone abandoned themselves to that intense childlike thankfulness.
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