Suzy and I had our three Charlotte granddaughters this weekend, or should I say they had us?
I had many thoughts as I watched them at play and sleep without fear. But one thought was how wonderful it must be to sleep without dreading the morrow.
We adults change all that over time, we remind them they have school, or a test, or not to be late for the bus. But in the early years school, and tests, and buses are things of excitement.
Out of nothing but parental love, we warn them about speeding cars, bullies at school, or adult strangers at the playground.
They survive because they learn to seize every drop of love they can find, and love is so powerful it overcomes all fear.
As adults we convince ourselves that a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child and to pour the whole of herself into each wonderful moment.
I wish as adults we realized what a gift it is to wake up without dread or foreboding, and we did more to make this a world we didn’t dread to wake up to every day.
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