Heavenletters

You live and learn. I never thought of myself as being a Calvinist, sweet Emilia. I think I don't even clearly remember what a Calvinist is. Perhaps someone wo asks funny questions. I'd much rather be no one than a Calvinist or anything, but perhaps being no one is really more fun when you are someone at the same time.

I should have mentioned that "What is innocence?" is really a rhetorical question. Well, almost. I really want to know, but from within. Concepts and definitions can help sometimes in that they point to something. Mostly they don't. Or after some time they don't. I fell in love with what God calls "leaning". Leaning is not about understanding and not about getting somewhere. As far as I can see, it works like this: Something God says touches you deeply, and all you do is stay in the vibration of it, perhaps speak it, and lean toward or into it. I ask, "What is innocence?" to remind myself to simply lean there and not want to know. As you said, "our true nature is that of a child". So what we are looking for is there anyway. Understanding it neither adds to it nor does it make us enter it. Leaning does. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify this a little further for myself.