Flowers from the children of Youth Camp

I love and deeply honor children, and I thought I wanted to do something for them, specially the less privileged ones. I didn’t know how to do it or what specifically I was going to do. I just knew that children are so incredibly precious, and I have faith in the beauty and brilliance of each one to be the best they can be so the world will be the best it could be.

 

Fast forward to just four years later, and I was privileged to be a speaker for a youth camp. Three awesome days of interacting with, and experiencing joy and innocence and curiosity and wit and grit and passion of young ones, with ages ranging from 10 to 29.

 

Are they perfect? Perhaps some of us may think not. And yet, Yes. They. Are!

 

Each one of them is perfect as they are, in each moment. And it moves me – deeply, intensely, infinitely.

 

And each one of us is really only a little child. Each one of us does not know all there is in the World. Nor are we expected to, nor do we have to. And that is wonderfully perfect and sweet as it is.

 

And the gift we can give ourselves in each moment is to just ask, simply: what would we like? And the powerful Source of All will unfold for us and give us the experiences to grow, to be more curious, to learn. To be happy. To be the best that we will be.

 

We are perfect just as we are, in each moment. No more, no less. And so that only leaves room to love and to be loved. As it is with children, so it is with us.

 

PS – The flowers were a gift from the children of the youth camp. What an honor to be at the receiving end. Salamat po!