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Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
Psalms 86:11

little children

I love love love love how simple-minded kids are. not dumb simple-minded, but just SIMPLE simple-minded u know? ahaha

I'm at a Starbucks right now.  This is the only Starbucks in Riverside where I feel like I'm not in the middle of a complete desert. It's actually really nice here at the Canyon Crest Plaza.  There's fountains and lots of trees and sometimes, they have live music outside. Anyways, next to this Starbucks, they have these fountains where water squirts out of the ground (like the ones at Universal City Walk) and I watched these kids (2 boys and a girl) laughing hysterically while running through the squirting water. Not just hehehe laughing but ROLLING ON THE FLOOR laughing. Like I'm-laughing-so-hard-I cannot-breathe laughing.... at water squirting out of the ground................ they're so simple.  So easily pleased.

I'm pretty sure they're siblings because the three of them looked so alike. Anyways, the older boy accidentally got some water in the girl's eye and she started crying and yelling "stopppp!" to her brother.  Then I looked a way for a split second, and I hear them laughing again chasing each other.  If only we could easily forget how someone has wronged us like she did..... SO SIMPLE.

Child-like hearts. That's what we all need.  We wouldn't be so bitter with the world and complaining all the time if we had child-like hearts.  We wouldn't be so caught up in our emotions and would be able to hear what God is trying to reveal to us in those circumstances because obviously, he's not trying to reveal to us the hurt.  There's something else there, we just can't hear it because all we're thinking about is, me me me.

"At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure."
Matthew 11: 25-26