Like a Child

Gospel MK 10:13-16

People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them,
but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,
“Let the children come to me; do not prevent them,
for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Amen, I say to you,
whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child
will not enter it.”
Then he embraced the children and blessed them,
placing his hands on them.

I like this reading.  Yesterday's reading was harsh for me and I'm still unsettled by it.  I'm inspired by today's reading to be more child-like in accepting the Kingdom of God.  For me that means unwavering trust and dependence.  When I think of my two boys when they were really small, before school-age, they were completely dependent on Mom and Dad.  They ate what we fed them, went where we went, and went to bed and got up on a schedule that we laid out for them (for the most part).  They never decided to trust us, it was somehow hard-wired into the relationship.  The never decided to depend on us, it's just how it was.  And so it is with our trust and dependence on God.  The path to holiness very much involves rediscovering the implicit trust and dependence that I have in God.  Why wouldn't the created, trust the Creator?