Come to me as a child

Many years ago I was feeling a bit melancholy and wrote a poem.

A million times as I lay curled
or toddled `bout my little world
I wondered at the big bright sun;
who turns it off? who turns it on?
And in my childish naivete
I gathered facts and filed `em away.
Answers everywhere I turned,
men who knew, wrote books I learned.
The flowers hue and scent so pure
was not for me, but bees to lure;
and thunders not the voice of God,
or clouds where all the angels trod.
No more to trust the rainbows pact,
for basic science is what I lacked.
Now armed with all the things I've learned
to stifle dreams the right I've earned;
and teach to all the little ones
the simple secrets of the sun.
Its sad to think I've come so far,
no more to wish on a twinkling star
or count the pixies in a tree,
or dream what's `neath the cold, blue sea.
And so I think that just for fun,
I'll wonder `bout the men who've gone
and filled our heads with all their `proof'
and strove for fact, discarding truth.
I'll picture them as little ones,
wondering at the big bright sun.

In hindsight I suppose some might see this as an attack on knowledge or learning. It certainly is not that. What it was to me at the time was a lament over the loss of childish wonder. Even still it makes me think of Christs instruction to come to him as child. I suppose that may mean different things to different people. I'd be interested in hearing different thoughts on this.

So what are the qualities of the child which are so crucial to our relationship with Christ? Innocence, Trust, real joy, but I think perhaps the most important, a sense of wonder about, life, creation, the creator. While our minds have this wonderful, God given ability to reason, learn, and grow; and while we are introduced to God and his Son through learning the stories of the bible, true belief cannot be learned. It is a leap of faith. There are many brilliant men who have dedicated volumes of material in a quest to prove the existence of God but in the end there can be no proof. Our faith is our salvation and where there is proof there is no faith. So as much as we may learn, or be able to reason our way to resolving the mysteries of this world, the mysteries of God's realm are, by design, reserved for the wonder, innocence, and trust of our inner child.