Through A Child's Eyes

Last Wednesday my wife and I got a phone call from our six year old granddaughter. Andie Rose was super excited because she had just lost her second front teeth. It had been hanging on, flopping around for a week, but it finally fell out and she just had to call to tell us about it. I think she was so excited because now she could eat her food easier, show everybody the funny hole in her face and maybe, just maybe, get a dollar from the tooth fairy!

 

On that same Wednesday, my wife and I had lunch with a friend at Houston's Restaurant in Irvine. It's a really nice restaurant (my wife's favorite) with great food and great service but the first thing our friend mentioned when he arrived was that he had just come from the dentist. He had to endure getting a rod inserted into a tooth to help keep the tooth in place. His mouth was numb so it was hard to talk and even harder to eat and he knew for sure it going to be hurting a lot later on.

 

I guess I found it ironic. At six years old most of us are excited and happy to lose a tooth but at sixty-six we'll do anything and endure just about any pain to hang on to one of them.

 

Maybe that's partly because children look at the world differently than adults do. Children see the world with a great deal of wonder and amazement. For them the sky is really blue, the stars are really bright and water from a hose on a hot summer day is better than a brand new car.  I think children see the world as God intended us to see it. They are constantly amazed at what they see and you have to admit His creation is pretty amazing! Most of us forget to take in the beauty of the daily miracles that abound around us. Hummingbirds that appear to be standing still in mid air but then fly at over 100 mph. Cold white snow on top of a mountain in Palm Springs when the desert floor below is over 100 degrees. And the wisdom, grace and beauty of a human being who has managed to live to be over 100 years old.

I'm not saying that we should be happy about a toothache or losing a tooth, but maybe we should be fairly amazed that we even have teeth to begin with. Every moment of every day could be and should be appreciated if we remember that all of it is a blessing, created out of love, by our amazing Creator. One thing's for sure, if we look at the world through a child's eyes...it looks a lot better!




Andie Rose - Happy to lose a tooth!



I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,

through which God speaks to us every hour, if only we will tune in.

~ George Washington Carver