You is important

"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mohandas Ghandi

      In the movie, "The Help", Aibileen says to a small child every morning, "You is kind... You is smart ... You is important."  What if our spirit is placed in us at the time of conception by God Himself?  If He reaches down and places that spirit in us and says similar words?  For nine months as He forms us He talks to us, "You are my child needed by these parent's for a short while before I come back to get you.  You are loved.  You are mine.  Your life has meaning."  Inside your heart He places everything you need to make you whole.

     When we are born we do nothing but look around in amazement at the world God has made for the first couple months.  When the awe finally wears off we learn to smile and eventually laugh.  Our parent's role is an impossible one, to keep us as whole as they can until we are grown.  Maybe we are all responsible for every child.  Of course the world and our flesh and the enemy are fighting us.  

     My two year old grandson has smiled from the get go.  He is always smiling.  A friend told me his granddaughter of the same age is the same way, unusually happy.  He said, "It's almost like they know something.  Maybe they know that He's coming back soon and they don't have to be on this earth as long as most people do".  Maybe they still remember His touch, His voice, His face and the world hasn't erased that from their memory yet.  Maybe that deep longing in our hearts is because somewhere deep down in our soul, we remember too.  We can't be happy until we make that connection again.  Even when we do finally make the connection, we still have to get past the damage done to us by living in this world to reach the level of intimacy we once had with Him.  Just sayin' what if?

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed." - Frank Buchman, protestant Christian evangelist