Chronicles of Charyl

Our worth before anybody is nothing compared to knowing our worth before God. A story in Our Daily Bread shares about a couple who never had a child for many years in their married life. So when one day they learned that the wife was pregnant, the husband enthusiastically shared to his workmates how God answered their prayer. At this, his colleagues laughed at him, for saying that it was God who gave the child to him. After many months, the baby was born, and the couple found out that the child had Down syndrome. And as the husband was on his way to work, he was wondering how he is going to face his co-workers. So he prayed and asked for God’s wisdom. And sure enough, when he arrived at work, what he feared about took place. His workmates made even more fun of him saying, so God gave you this child. The new father stood silently for a moment, and then he said, Yes, I’m glad the Lord gave this child to me, and not to you. This new father humbly accepted his mentally challenged c...

I often hear parents say that babies or children really have a way of erasing away all their problems or concerns for the day. So, when I finally had the chance to spend half of a day with my one-year old niece, I realized what I heard was true. And now, I wonder why. Perhaps because children have so simplistic view of things that adults can really find refreshing perspective from them. They laugh when they’re enjoying something, cry when they’re hungry or in pain, and don’t have a care in the world, when they sleep on your shoulder. Maybe because they are completely confident that when they’re with the people whom they recognize as the one giving them care, they know everything’s going to be alright. This is probably the reason why Jesus teaches his disciples that we should approach God with child-like faith, one that completely trusts, one which holds nothing back. When we become older, our thoughts become infiltrated with doubts, suspicions and uncertainties we experienced from...