The heart of a child

The heart of a child..

The
Innocence of a
child.

The faith of
a child.

The belief in
things
unseen, seen
by a child.

The other day while babysitting I noticed the way children react to things that are evil. A cartoon came on with an evil looking character, and the child seemed appalled and started to move away from the screen as if she didn't want to look at it anymore. This made me realize how innocent we are coming into this world.

Innocent: free from moral wrong, not corrupted.

As children we enjoy innocent things, not things that are scary. It is over time that we become more immune to the things of this world and the innocents beings to slip away.

This child's reaction awakened me to the pure form of innocents I once withheld, and the way which we were created.

There is something so sweet about a childlike spirit. The way they trust you, and the way they will believe in or anything you say, and the way they are so pure and innocent. This is how I believe God is calling us to be. To trust him and to believe the things he says with all our heart without any walls or guards, to find our innocence in him who is the one who created us with it from the begining. I want the heart of a child.

“Field of Dreams”
Vogue, November 2008
photographer: Mario Testino
Natalia Vodianova