"We are outraged when God does not seem to respond to our prayer, when God does not seem to make things go according to our plan. It rarely occurs to us that in this seeming refusal God is perhaps leading us, offering us greater possibility, giving us the opportunity to be led into a wider place, out of bondage from our tunnel vision, and into a life of freedom. The analogy of a child's approach to God has been twisted. It is not the unquestioning, immature 'blind' approach that is often wished on us. Children's aren't like that. They are full of wonder, yes, but the wonder leads them to question, and the questions to greater wonder. This is a far cry from the sort of spiritual frontal lobotomy that much 'childhood' spirituality has wished on us. If God wanted us to shut off our minds, God would have created us differently. We cannot use the image of the child to abrogate responsibility and seek security. To be a child is to be perpetually in a state of adventure, exploration and insecurity. Faith provides security, but it is the security to live within insecurity, and is the opposite of control."

-- Maggie Ross

"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world [as wonder] to confound the wise [who (in their vanity) falsely assume that they have all answers]; . ." (First Corinthians 1.27).