{"id":4103,"date":"2025-12-04T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:16:30","slug":"kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/12\/04\/kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been Written
\nthat Jesus Said<\/p>\n

\u201cLet Those Kids Loose
\nso They can Come Here and
\nBe With Me.
\nAfter All,
\nThey\u2019re What Heaven
\nIs All About.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more Formal
\nwhen the King James Posse
\nTranslated It,
\nBut Kids are Kids.<\/p>\n

His Apostolic Sidekicks
\nhad been Keeping
\nThe Little Ones
\nat a Distance,
\nImagining They
\nWould Bother Him.<\/p>\n

Instead He Said,
\n\u201cPay Attention, Guys,
\nThese are Your
\nRole Models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consider That.
\nContemplate It.
\nMeditate On It.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve Imagined
\nTemples and
\nPriesthoods and
\nNunneries and
\nLeatherbound Libraries,<\/p>\n

When The Man,
\nHimself,
\nAsks Us to
\nTurn Loose
\nThe Child
\nIn Us.<\/p>\n

To Play,
\nTo Laugh and
\nExpect To See Magic and
\nBelieve We\u2019ll Be
\nCared For.<\/p>\n

Was It Just a Metaphor
\nthat I\u2019ve Stretched?<\/p>\n

When He Said
\nTo Become
\nAs a Child<\/p>\n

Is a Must?<\/p>\n

(Photo by Robert Collins; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Kids It\u2019s been Written that Jesus Said \u201cLet Those Kids Loose so They can Come Here and Be With Me. After All, They\u2019re What Heaven Is All About.\u201d It\u2019s more Formal when the King James Posse Translated It, But Kids are Kids. His Apostolic Sidekicks had been Keeping The Little Ones at a Distance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t