Each Child Is Born Full of the Light

“The light within is a central guide for parents. I believe each child is born full of the light, in complete innocence and goodness, and our most important role as parents is to nurture that light. Sometimes it is obvious and our way is clear. Other times – many other times – it is not. Then our job is to be attentive, to listen with all our senses. Is it our eye that is clouded, or has something obscured the light in them? What can we do to help loosen what is covering it, so that our view of them and their view of themselves and the world is clear again?”

— Pamela Haines, 2002
Quaker educator

Today’s Invitation

Be attentive to the light in children; listen with all your senses.

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  • Pamela Haines is a Quaker child care worker, including work in a leadership capacity and community building and organizing for policy change. She also teaches peer counseling, leads family play groups, and runs workshops on faith, economics and investment, and has spoken on the topics of finance, climate, justice and racism.

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