Page 78 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

experience that will give you the understanding that turns out
to be the answer. having read this you can now watch the
behaviour of second year children and see if you understand.
Your learning from them will enable them then to learn from
you but in a Spiritual way.

The energy of a two year old child seems boundless, this is
because it is attuned spiritually and physically. It is the energy
that can overcome almost any obstacle in its path. It could be
said they are highly spirited. Unfortunately for this child it
might not have a suitable outlet for this energy. Its parents
might not have to time to give to the child and its
grandparents might be too far removed to have daily
interaction with it. Again we must remember that the Spirit of
the chid chose the potential of this situation for its
evolvement, and that choice is special and perfect. The duty of
those in whose care this child is, is to accept that this is the
case and to enable to chid to receive every possible benefit
from the circumstances it has chosen to incarnate into. Too
many people only try and service the physical needs and often
neglect the spiritual needs of the child. The physical needs are
very obvious whereas the spiritual needs are less so, unless
the carer is spiritually attuned God and the child. A tenet of
Christian faith is to "honour thy Father and Mother",
suggesting that the child should see their parents as their
masters and betters, where in fact this is not to be the case.
Rather than honour it might be better to use the word respect.
Respect has to be "earned" and when earned respect also
needs to be reciprocated. In the case of a child this