We find the greatest among the least. This is a paradox of Christian life taught by Jesus. We welcome Jesus or find Jesus among the servants, and the least important of all people. Just as children easily find other children in a group and quickly begin to play and enjoy themselves, so we too ought to gravitate towards the servants and the least.

To welcome Jesus as a child is to open one's arms to the infinite possibilities that lie before us in life. Among us live lonely people who are like lost children, unable to discover their potentialities. Our reaching out to them in compassion and love would allow them to be reborn again as God's children - to hope for lasting things like joy and mercy. The child in each of us yearns and hopes always for the best. Jesus' statements regarding His death and resurrection - the loss of life in order to regain life - points to the confidence of a child who falls only to rise again...forgetting the pain of the fall the child continues in his/her pursuit of anything that catches his/her eyes.

We, who have become so conditioned by our fears to move forward, too cautious to give up for fear of losing everything, have forgotten the freedom of being "child". We need to remember once again our past - how we hoped in the Lord and He never disappointed us. Our faith and trust need to be transformed to that of a child before the Heavenly Father.