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Seeing More than Stumbling Blocks

Below is my contribution to the annual devotional booklet for Light a Candle for Children Prayer Vigil. Clearly I'm way behind in posting this but here it is.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Seeing More than Stumbling Blocks
Jeremiah 6:21
There are days I struggle to get tasks completed because I don’t understand them. It’s a blessing when one of the church children come up and magically move things or hit a button and things just work. Children see more than stumbling blocks and make a difference because they believe that they can do anything. They haven’t heard society tell them what/who they are or are not yet.
Children have a unique way of seeing a different perspective. Jeremiah addressed God’s people, who often refused to change their hearts and see differently. It’s not the most loving thing to put a stumbling block in our way. But sometimes blocks help us to slow down and re-evaluate the situation. The Church has the blessing of children to let us see things in new and exciting ways. The Church now must learn to protect children from things that want to limit who children are and will become and show them that they are loved through all of their searching – in their becoming who God has created them to be.
Prayer: Sometimes God I get so caught up on the things that are not important that I forget to be who you created me to be. Help me to remove the stumbling blocks from the vision and to look and explore just as a child sees with joy, excitement, hope and endless possibilities. Amen.
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