Who are our children?

A child is a spiritual being

A child who is brought into the world to grow in body, mind, and spirit. Therefore parents are the first and most important teacher. To teach a child well is to bring out the best in him. Most of us or I should say that everyone of us want the best for our children. For making sure that they have enough food, clothes, hugs, toys and friends to giving them the best education we can afford. We want them to do well, marry well, and to have a healthy children. We want to see them happy and successful. We wish them the best. What's best for them has everything to do with what is best in them. Virtues are the good natures of a child. The virtues are gems in the mine of the true self. A parent is meant to mine a child's gem and bring them to light.

Children are longing for Mastery and Meaning

Children are born with a mysterious longing for mastery and for meaning. To keep learning, to keep stretching, to keep reaching for more. This is a deep spiritual need, a yearning of the soul which is often misinterpreted in the course of our lives as physical or material neediness.

If only we had more popularity, more money, more love, more power, a better job, then we would be happy. Yet when we attempt to fill this longing by something physical or material, something external to the self, we remain unsatisfied.

Sometimes we seek addictive ways to become numb to the pain of this longing, and we are left feeling even emptier, because only a connection to our spiritual purpose will truly fill the need. Some consider this purpose our connection with God. It is the call to realize our innate sense of wholeness and the move toward wholeness which is at the core of spiritual growth. Nothing else will give us genuine happiness.