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 in today's Gospel Jesus calls his disciples and us "childlike": 
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you
 have revealed them to the childlike". </b></span>How so? Children don't know how 
to dissemble, how to be one way and act another. "<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Kids</b></span> say the darndest 
things," because they <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>don't know how to hide the truth of their 
reactions.</b></span></p>
 <p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> In
 this,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> they are like stars or flowers or animals, things that are what 
they are,</b></span> unambiguously. The challenge of the spiritual life is to 
realize what God wants us to be and thereby come to the same simplicity 
and directness in our existence. To find out what is in line with the 
deepest grain of our being.</p>
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themselves. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Why can a child immerse himself so eagerly and thoroughly in
 what he is doing? Because he can lose himself; </b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">because he is not 
</span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">looking at himself, conscious of the reactions, expectations, and 
approval of those around him. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The best moments in life occur when we 
lose<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the ego</span>,</span> lose<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> ourselves in the world </span>and just <i style="margin:0px;outline:medium none;padding:0px">are</i> as God wants us to be.</b></span><br>
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