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One day, I was looking for gift suggestions for my nieces and nephews online. I was amazed how children’s toys and gadgets have evolved from my generation to the generation these days. I ended up purchasing compact discs and books about vegetable-characters teaching children about God. I thought these are great alternatives to violent online games as gifts for children. I even got a good deal using VeggieTales coupon codes.
Buying the items made me reflect, what is the nature of a child which is so pleasing to God? What childlike-nature imbibed by the vegetable-characters in VeggieTales should adults learn? Well, I can tick some of the characteristics of a child I think adults should embrace especially in the contemporary times. These are as follows:
• Innocence
Children have the tinge of simplicity in them. They lack the sophistication of the contemporary world. Their language and actions speak harmlessly, with no intent to hurt. Their innocence boasts of inexperience which makes them trustworthy. Unlike adults, their movements are carefully structured. Their actions and speech are systematic and dictated by social functions and categories.
• Less preoccupation with the future
Children have less preoccupation with the future. They enjoy what is present. They do not worry too much about what will happen next. They just embrace and let go with what is called at the moment. This way, they savor life. They live life.
• Dependence
Children are dependent. Their dependence makes manifest their weakness and reliance on a higher figure outside of themselves. They have the vulnerability to be taken cared of. Adults on the other hand can have the tendency to be super independent which makes everything and everyone else superfluous. Such independence and self-reliance can push God outside of one’s life. God can become emotionally dispensable.
• Less attachments
Children have less attachment to things and events which can often times cripple the older generation. Children experience pain and anger yet do not dwell on them too much. Children with their broken toys may cry yet move on to other toys quickly. Children may fight with one another, yet forgive easily.
• Spontaneity
Children have not lost their spontaneity. They express their freedom in their own ways. Adults are restricted more often. They calculate the risks and the investments. They control the outcomes and negatives. They suppress spontaneity to climax to its peak forgetting about fun and simple pleasures.
These are some of the things which I think children possess which please God. Sometimes, I think we lose these innate values as we grow older. It may be advantageous on our part as adults or it may not be.
Thankfully, I purchased those gifts and even got them at affordable rates with the VeggieTales coupon codes. It made me think. Once in a while, it pays off to listen to the vegetable-characters as they teach childlike-features which adults can always re-learn.
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