A Child

Coming in, I tell her to get a book. She scurries over to sit next to me, making multiple trips for each of her necessities including the blanket, baby doll and book. She rarely pays much attention to the words I read as she points to miscellaneous objects across the thick card board pages.
Once the final page is turned, she willingly gives her goodnight kiss and hugs. She collects her items and ruffles across the bed, nestles her head on the pillow and her body snug in the covers. She is ready for "night-night."
I am at awe as I give my last "I love you," before lights out and closing the door. This most precious, innocent and heart-touching child is mine.
Whether it is a burst of laughter, as she runs in circles yelling, "I dizzy," and falling to the floor, or the mischievous look in the corner of her eyes when she is proceeding to capture your attention, this child allows me to feel a sense of life not otherwise possible.
Late in the afternoons I have found myself walking through the living room simply staring at her framed photos. I see absolute perfection in its purity resting in the face of a child representing her parents in many attributes, but more importantly, an image of God, the Creator.
Then, I think to myself, I wonder if God feels this way when looking at His children. That the perfection I see in my daughter is the same perfection He sees while looking at me with His complete vision of love.
As a young woman, I prayed for God to allow me one thing on earth, just one thing. I prayed to know the love of a mother for her child. It is this love; I believe is the closest I will ever come to understanding how God's love works in our lives.
Love is such a wide web of intricate facets with one more complicated than the next. I dare not say I have figured the verb's distinct meaning in every realm of its existence. But I can say, I have a deeper understanding for the reason why God might have lovingly wrote the Scripture Matthew 18:3.
Except ye be converted, and be as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven
It is in a child that one can find pure innocence and true love.