A Child's ABC's

A grandfather overheard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in reverent, hushed tones.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm praying, Grandpa," she said. "I can't think of the right words, so I just say all the letters. God will put them together for me, 'cause he knows what I'm thinking."

A Little Boy's Prayer

"Dear God, please take care of my daddy and my mommy and my sister and my brother and my doggy and me. Oh, please take care of yourself, God. If anything happens to you, we're gonna be in a big mess."

Many people use the word 'simplicity' for 'naivety' and'shallowness of thought', and they consider simple-souled people to be naive people with no understanding of anything, orwho have no depth of thought or ability to manage.

But this way of thinking is not sound. Simplicity in Christianityis a wise simplicity. There is no difference between this simplicity and wisdom. The Lord said, " …be as wise as serpants… and as harmless as doves". (Matt. 10 : 16)

This simplicity of innocence is not the opposite of wisdom but the opposite of sophistication.

Christian simplicity is a wise simplicity and Christian wisdom is innocent wisdom which means that there is no attempt to make things complicated and involved. A person may be extremely intelligent, but even so, may be innocent, by which we mean that he does not make matters complicated or tricky.

By H.H Pope Shenouda III
From "Expieriences in Life"