Jesus chose to be around small children a number of times in his ministry, often over the objections of his disciples. Sometimes he seems to have done this in order to hold children up as examples of the childlike qualitites that enable God’s Realm. But maybe, sometimes, he just wanted to hold them.

– Susan Ross
from Alive Now, July/August 1994

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