A little girl was sitting on her mother’s knee. She was very fond of her mother…as you will see.

She called her, “my very own mother,” and like one who was rejoicing over very precious treasures, she sat on her knee, she was touching, one after the other, the features of her mother’s face with her little fingers—her mother’s lips, her eyes, her cheeks, her hair.

After a while she said, “Mummy, can I see your heart?” The mother said, “I don’t know about that, but you can look into my eyes, and see if you can see anything.”

The child climbed up and peered in; and then she cried out gleefully, “I can see your heart, Mummy, and there is a tiny girl way in there, and it’s me!”

From  the mouths of babes. What do people see when they look into our eyes? Into our hearts? Do they see God’s love in us, in our lives? The Psalmist wrote, “Create in me a pure heart, a new, clean O God, and renew a right spirit within me?”

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