Out of the Mouth of Babes
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Writer (1809-1894)
‘Out of the mouth of babes’, they so often say when a child just blurts out the truth, and it appears that truth telling is something all too often left behind in childhood. As we grow older the colors of the world begin to fade, as children we see the world in a rainbow of colors, then suddenly as adults it all begins to appear in shades of gray. Yet, while children are the ones who remain so unclouded by politics, greed, and the trivialness of every day life; their truthfulness is mistaken for innocence and naivety.
When we seek guidance and incite into so many of our worlds dilemmas, one must really ought hear the voices of children. How different our world could be if only we would listen to the children for whose future we work to protect!