Special to God

         "God made children grow in a certain way and when we don't take care of them the right way, it can change them."

          Look at this quote from an abused or neagleted child's point of view. I came up with this quote after watching a movie in a training that I had at work about a little girl that was abused and not paid attention to.  Our main subject was child development, which I probably had 3 of the same classes on that in college because I kept changing my major and they weren't happy with the one I took for some reason. This quote that popped into my mind got me to think about child development (aka my degree) and how new way.
          People have been making these charts and ways that children should reach and do a certain thing by a certain age and most of them do or at least close to that age. We tend not to think anything about those charts but work with abused preschoolers and you would beg to differ. Children being abused and neglected would not reach that stage or time.
           God made us for relationships and for bonding. He made us to grow and grow in order. God made us complex and when you think about the human made charts of development it is amazing. It is even hard to explain. He gives us what we need to grow and if we don't get that we don't grow like we should. It is strange too because the most common ones that are not developed are emotional and intellentance. It is sad that emotional is one of them. Who cannot love their child? It is so hard to wrap my mind around that.
            God make us so complex and wonderful like the Palms says. He know how inner being. He knows what we need to grow into the person we need to be so why are we so hard on ourselves. Why do we not take time to enjoy what He has given us as in talents and knowledge? Why do we not take the time to enjoy what and who is around us because they help us grow too? They are a big part of building relationships and bonding.
            God gave us the wants to talk and be with him because that is what bonding is all about. It is to get to know the person or thing we love the most. It is being with them all the time. Asking them questions and learning about them. Seeing what they think in a certain situation. Loving them with all our hearts. Just strange how we really take our relationships with God less seriously then our relationships with humans. We think that humans know everything so we ask them all the questions but only God does and we need to be asking Him everything.
           That quote makes more sense and is more meaningful in my mind but that might because I work with abused children everyday and Christ lives out of me everyday for those children. It could also be that this quote is just one of those quotes that is hard to explain but means something deep down. It all comes back to relationships with God and people. We are the person we are when we give to the people around us because they give back and we are happier. We learn everyday whether we know it or not, even as adults probably more so about "real" life.