The value of being like children

I have always been struck by Christ's insistence that we go back to being children. I have learned something, a child does not rationalize, does not intellectualize, a child experiences his feelings. A child who was abandoned by his mother or father feels excruciating fear, bordering on panic. The rest of your life , the mere thought of loneliness will make you panic again even though you are in more company than ever. The same happens when a child witnesses acts of violence, that visceral fear will be repeated with the sole thought that this can be repeated.

When we stop being children we have accumulated an experience throughout the personality maturation process that leads us to presuppose things before they happen. It is very simple, before a certain action there is a response, the first time this happens is determining how the following responses will be to different situations in our life.

We also imitate behaviors learned from our earthly parents; If anger was the response that we saw in them to vital events, we will create the same response mechanisms, nothing of what we are is a coincidence, everything was formed throughout life.

When Jesus referred to being like a child again, of course He was not referring to an act of magic in which we shrink, Our Lord meant to leave all the suspicion with which we come to Him and begin to trust in again, to remove all acquired predisposition from our mind and allow it to be displaced by the innocence of the new birth, without this, it is really very difficult to be able to live with our brothers, we have so many wounds along the way that if we do not get a new skin, We will not even be able to touch each other because of the pain that it would cause to do so.

Christ gives us that new skin, he gives us the possibility of being born again, being a baby in him and beginning to relearn with a new style to walk the same paths, but with his hand, that is the difference.

Learn to understand your new birth, leave your mind like a blank paper and start writing your true story, you have a new identity, trust, He will never abandon you.