Do you remember when we were kids and we used to play with everyone in the neighborhood? We had hours of fun, so much that we forgot to eat.

Who didn't had a best friend who was an accomplice to do many things? We had fun and we fought, but we got happy easily and quickly. There were no long fights because we wanted to keep playing and enjoying ourselves as much as we could. We even made sibling pacts forever.

When we asked for a toy we did it without much description: a car, a doll, a teddy bear, clothes, shoes.

Today, on the other hand, we ask for gifts with very special characteristics of brand, size, color, value and taste. Sometimes it is very difficult to please us, even ourselves. We prefer a gift voucher.

Fights with our friends can go on forever or a long time passes and we never talk to them again. We are no longer amused by many things and if it's not what we want we don't do it.

"Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" Matthew 19:14.

When Christ says - let them come to me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven - he is not referring to literal children, but to those who are like children: innocent, simple, humble, uncomplicated, without prejudice.

A child can be instructed, when he makes a mistake he allows himself to be corrected, accepts that he made a mistake and asks for forgiveness. A child asks for simple things, gives thanks for what he is given, has fun, is cheerful, happy with what he has and forgives his friends quickly.

Today Christ invites us to be like children, to live like children, to think like children, to act like children. Not to be irresponsible and immature, He already gave us knowledge and wisdom; to be children in our look, in our answers, in our heart.

God bless you!

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