Faith like a child.

Gustavon.
This is the to the little boy 12 years old who stole my heart and ever since I can’t stop thinking about him
I met him at an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti march 16th 2011.
From the moment I first saw him I couldn’t help but see there was something different about him not just physically
but emotionally too
He sat as the other kids sang songs for a while but gradually he made his way over to where we sat
I sat and watched as he played on touch screen camera
That’s all he needed was the chance to explore
As I held him he clung to me, no words were exchanged
I just held and he clung
I will never forget those eyes. The way he raised his arms
Not with a eagerness or abounding leaps begging to be picked up
But simple humbleness
I stood as he looked at me with those eyes and just held his arms with nothing to offer but as if just to say hold me
It was in this moment that he a 12 year old boy at an orphanage taught me what faith is
In the words eyes he may have nothing to offer being mute and not having grown for years
But when I looked in those eyes
He reminded me of life thought God’s eyes looks like
We are at best beggars
All our righteousness measures up to is dirty rags
But in the arms of Christ we sacred
Treasured.
His.
Our worth, our hope is not found in the world but Him alone.
And as I held this boy I couldn’t help but be reminded of my own walk with God
As I took him and my arms and we begin to spin in circles like all kids love to do and the faster we spun the tighter he held on, he didn’t cry and complain that we stop when he got to too scared.
He held on.
And laughed.
I would give anything to be back in that moment with his arms wrapped around me, just to hear him laugh and to see his smile
And all I can say is thank you to this little boy who taught me what child-like faith looks like.
Just like when we spun faster he hung on tighter, when life gets crazy, when I feel scared or afraid I should cling to God.
Let Him be my shelter
There’s safety in the arms of Christ.

"Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in."—Mark 10:13-16