Often people "intervene" to protect others from what they perceive to be harmful or dangerous as in the case of the Apostles in today's short passage from Mark 10: 13-16). When people were bringing their children to Jesus so that he could touch them, they shooed them away, intending to save him from these (we surmise) noisy and squirming kids. But Jesus rebuked the Apostles and encouraged the other adults to bring the children to him, "for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Mk 10: 14) and whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God as a child, will not enter it. In tenderness, he embraced the children, blessed them and placed his hands upon them...All simple gestures of love and powerful reminders that living the Kingdom of God is not complicated science or math, but as simple as accepting and welcoming one another as children do, or opening a car door for an elderly person, or holding a door for someone. The simpler the better...we can easily muck up things by sticking our noses in where they do not belong.
Bro. Rene
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