Have you ever noticed that children are completely in the moment with everything they do?  Children are innocent because they are not calculating their actions on past programming or future expectation.  They completely live in the moment.

Adults on the other hand, have tons of past programming of how they “should” be and how they should act.  We calculate our decisions based on future expectations and who we think we should be in order to get what we think we want.  We have a very hard time being present with ourselves because we are always thinking about the past or the future. 

There is great talk among us that we have a “purpose” to fulfill and that we have something we need to DO in our lives, some function we must fulfill and many of us seek to find that purpose or function outside of ourselves.  Through all of our programming and muck, we lose our childlike innocence because we think there is something we must do or that we have a role we must fulfill.  We think in order to be worthy in the eyes of God, others and ourselves (all One thing) we have a mission and we must accomplish something.  This is the fallacy of the new thought movement. 

There is nothing we must do and nobody we must be except who we are.  The problem is, most of us have forgotten who we are because we have layers upon layers of belief systems obstructing our vision and weighing us down. 

Children do not judge their crying as bad, they experience it and move on.  They don’t worry about what they are doing or how they are behaving because they have confidence and trust that everything is taken care of for them.  They live moment by moment because the moment is all they have.  To “become like little children” does not mean to submit to someone else’s way of seeing things, but it means to be authentically you in every moment. 

We as adults confine ourselves in tiny boxes as we define ourselves, for example, a white, married Christian school teacher and mother of two is a description of someone and all descriptions are ways define ones Self.  As we define something, so do we confine it.  Children don’t care about ANY of that stuff.  They play, they cry, they laugh, they get hungry, they eat, they sleep and it doesn’t even matter if the person with whom they are interacting has a name let alone what color their skin is or what religion they practice. 

The more I wake up, the more I see that with greater awareness of my true nature, the more childlike and innocent I become.  I feel free to do what I want in any moment and do not judge things as good and bad they just are what they are.  Along with that, comes a great freedom.  Freedom of knowing that there is nothing I HAVE to do, just be me and in that, I am living according to my Truth. 

The world is our playground but most of us have forgotten how to play.  Lets let go of our inhibitions and play.

Kerri