except you become as one of these little ones:
I recall entering into early adolescence. I remember a particular Sunday school class (as I grew up LDS) about the requirements for the varied Degrees of Glory as Mormons see it. (In what I am about to share, I am by no means discouraging those who are called to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) I thought to myself I want to make, I'm going to make it to the highest Degree. I thought the experience to be some type of religious awakening. My childlike hope was further introduced to heartache. In recent years, I have come to realize that the experience was more about guilt and shame than spiritual grounding. I was set on a course that caused me to try harder and harder to make myself acceptable to God. I was taking life by the horns! All of this got me nowhere but bitter...
I have had to really look at Jesus call to become as a little child--I am still pondering upon Jesus' statement. I suppose I will for the rest of my life. In reawakening our Catholic faith is the need to shed that shame. It is truly possible to transform our understanding of who we are. We ARE able to rediscover--without shame--the beauty of not knowing and being reliant upon Christ.