1. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. (Harold Hulbert)
2. No man or woman ever had a nobler challenge or a higher privilege than to bring up a child for God, and whenever we slight that privilege or neglect that ministry for anything else, we live to mourn it in heartache and grief. (Vance Havner)
3. The cure of crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. (J. Edgar Hoover)…
In many cultures, children are not really recognised as persons in their own right. In Western society, it took authors such as Lewis Carroll to begin portray children as creative and playful.
In New Testament times, children were seen as relatively insignificant and unimportant. This is hinted at in the Gospels, where Jesus as a child is rarely mentioned by name (Matthew refers to his as ‘the child’ eight times, and Luke does the same for both John and Jesus – see Lk 1:76; 2:48).…
A bit of light relief. Here are a few of my favourites from Children’s Letters to God:-
Dear God…
‘I would like all the bad things to stop.’
‘My father is mean. Please get him not to be. But don’t hurt him.’
‘Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones why don’t you just keep the ones you’ve got now?’
‘Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.’…
