I'm obsessed with children's books. I love them! I love the way that literature can communicate so many different things across cultures and ages. It simply amazes me how a short 20 page story can change a child's (or adult too!) perspective on things. After I took my weekly Friday afternoon nap, I found one of my roommate's tub of children's books (she's an education major too! We don't just collect them!). I began reading all of the ones I've never read before and came across a book written by Max Lucado called "Because I Love You". I knew Max Lucado had written several books, but I've never had the opportunity to read it and really ponder all of the connections he was trying to make with God but never said. The story line of this book is that there is an old man named Shaddai and he loves the children in the village so much that he built literally everything they could ever want for them. He spent his days loving the children and truly knowing them. One day Shaddai decided to build a wall to protect the children from the outside world, but he also built a hole into the wall so that if the children wanted to leave they could. Paladin, the most curious child in the village, found the hole and asked Shaddai about it and he said that he put the hole there because even though he wanted the children to be there he didn't want them to have to be there. Paladin being curious crawled through the hole to discover the outside world, but when he decided to come back, the hole was gone. Paladin began to cry out for Shaddai to come rescue him, but what Paladin didn't know is that before he had cried out to Shaddai he was making another hole to rescue the child that he loved.
