Experience Happiness » jack http://experiencehappiness.net Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:39:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 My seven year-old is way smarter than me. http://experiencehappiness.net/2009/09/my-seven-year-old-is-way-smarter-than-me/ http://experiencehappiness.net/2009/09/my-seven-year-old-is-way-smarter-than-me/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:36 +0000 happychannel http://experiencehappiness.net/?p=7 Holding HandsBy: Linda Elwell
Michael says that we come into the physical world as “spirits embodied,” complete and everyway and gifted with infinite wisdom. Based on all the silly things people do, I had a hard time accepting this. Then, I had the following incredible conversation with my 7-year old son, Jack during an evening tuck-in:

Me: “Jack, I love you so much. You are the best – you really are. Thanks for being here with me, you are the best!”

Jack: “Hold on, Mom. We need to talk.”

Me: “Oh yeah? About what?

Jack: “Well…it’s like this. I am not the best. I am one of many great people in this world. We don’t want any one person to the best, we want everyone to be their greatest.”

At this point was blown away. I kissed him on the cheek and realized that yes, we really are born with infinite wisdom – we just tend to forget it. Thank goodness we have kids to help us reconnect with who we really are.

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