Some usually divorced people with children accuse me of being selfish. But it s not just me. Someday they will hear it from their own children. A lost childhood cannot be recaptured. Even these words are understandable, however, in light of the spirit of reverence the spirit that welcomes children and opposes at all costs everything that despises and rejects them.
Reverence is more than just love.
Reverence is the willingness to accept childhood for its own sake, and children for who they really are. Reverence is trust, too, as we see in the Jewish midrash which says that when God was bargaining with the people of Israel he refused to give them the Torah until they could guarantee its safekeeping. First they offered God their eldest, but he held them insufficient. Then they offered him their prophets, but he held them insufficient too. For their sake I give you the Torah.