Episode Details

In what is a very busy and critical time, people bring little children to Jesus. Rather than welcome them, the disciples try to send them away. Instead, Jesus insists on welcoming them and further insists that we must all become like little children if we wish to be with God. But how? In what way should we be like children? It seems that Jesus intends that we wrestle with this question, exploring the ways in which Jesus is inviting us to be the children of God that we are.

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For Reflection:

- Why do you think the disciples tried to turn the children away?

- In what ways do you think we are to be like children? In what ways do you think we are not to be like children?

- What makes it difficult for you to answer Jesus' call to be more childlike?

- Who in your life might need the kind of welcome and blessing Jesus models here?

- Prayer: Jesus, give me a childlike heart that trusts you and leans on your loving embrace.