Innocence

Saturday mornings are grace, especially when surrounded by grandchildren. We're enjoying the morning after a sleep-over with several of our grandchildren who are wound tight and unwinding loudly. The noise level at times rivals a sonic boom, but I love being in the presence of childish naïveté. The exuberant shouts and unfettered motion are symptoms of what heals down deep--innocence. Could anything more clearly illustrate salvation? What saves us and keeps on saving us is the Father's insistence on and our acceptance of a return to holy innocence where sin no longer stifles intimacy. More than anything else, innocence is a way of relating to God that transforms the way we relate to everyone and everything else. Never intended as a historical marker, it is grace for the living of this moment with childlike wonder.