This was written by C.S. Lewis to his future step son, “When I was 10, I read fairytales in secret, and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so, so now that I am 50, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up.”
Jesus said in Matthew 18 that unless we change and become like little children that we will not be able to explore all the wonders of the kingdom of God. As a matter fact, He said that unless you humble yourself and become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. He later in those same verses spoke of the consequences that would come to those who would cause one of the little ones who are believing to stumble. Childlikeness is such an important ingredient in the life of faith that manifests fully our union with Christ. Jesus was basically saying that we have to humble ourselves and believe the way that little children believe. If you’ve ever spent much time around little children, then you know that a little child will believe anything, and the Lord is looking for people who will believe everything that He says about us, and the realities around us. When Gabriel came to Mary and announced to this young virgin girl that she was going to be impregnated by the Holy Spirit, and give birth to the Messiah, her response was simply “how,” in light of the fact that she was still a virgin. It simply did not make sense to her head how this could happen, but when Gabriel explained to her that the Holy Spirit was going to go to come upon her and that the power of God would overshadow her, her next response came from her heart, instead of her head. She simply said, “nothing, not any word, will be impossible with God.” When she heard that God was going to overshadow her weak condition with his power, then that’s all she needed to know, because she knew that if God was going to be directly involved, then not one word that He gives us is impossible to Him. Little children believe from the heart, and not the head, for Romans chapter 10 tells us that it is with the heart that we believe. The God of the impossible constantly does things that transcend human reason, and human logic, and if we sre going to see the God of the impossible release impossibilities into and through our lives then we must embrace the childlike heart of Mary who looks at one thing and one thing alone; is God big enough for this.