Today's second reading from the 1st Letter of St. John begins like this: "Beloved, see what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God." We are God's children through baptism, although, while we were children, we often heard from the adults in our life, "Grow up!" Or, "Stop acting like a child!" Yet Jesus says in the Gospels, "Unless you become like a child you will not enter the Kingdom of God." We are children on God in fact through our baptism. But how are we to be like children? What qualities does Jesus see in children that He wants us to emulate?