UNLESS YOU BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN

Unless you become like little children

You shall not see the face of God,

For the one with the heart and the eyes of a child

Will see what God is like.

The Lord said: Suffer little children to come unto me

For such is the kingdom of heaven.

So Jesus blessed the young ones

and fed them with his love

And asked us: Be like them (2).

The Lord said: Blessed are the ones who are

pure in their hearts

For they are the ones who'll see God.

And Jesus said of elders who lead the young to sin:

They should not have been born (2).

Whoever welcomes one such child in my name

welcomes me,

Not me but the One who sent me,

And he who gives some water

to one who bears my name

Will lose not his reward (2).

O Heavenly Father, said the Lord, do I thank

you once more

For hiding these things from the learned,

Revealing them to children

and those with simple hearts

For such was what you willed (2).