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Narrative: Have you ever tried to hold a rabbit so easily as this Guardian Spirit seems able to do? The hare or untamed rabbit seems too impatient to be held so easily. This Guardian respects that impatience - this Spirit knows that there are times when everyone could use a little impatience. The eager child knows this. Waiting for a celebration or a holiday makes the child very impatient - with the kind of impatience that can also help us to be hopeful.
The Child Spirit keeps the spirit of the child alive and vibrant in everyone. The truly wise person finds room in life for the spirit of the child and so the wise person, no matter what age, can play, trust, grow, recover from mistakes. The healthy society loves and treasures its children. It holds and embraces them. It comforts them. A wise society listens to its children, pays careful attention to them. The wise spiritual tradition recognizes that the child bears within itself a certain divine quality that often disappears in adults. This Child Spirit Image invites you to welcome and honor the spirit of the Child in society and in the heart of every everyone.
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