{"id":1079,"date":"2006-08-23T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2006-08-23T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:30:05","slug":"the-joy-from-little-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/the-joy-from-little-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy from little children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last sunday was really wonderful<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun and refreshing to be among children and being with them. Even for 1 hour, it&#8217;s just fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday however it&#8217;s quite special. This year i&#8217;m taking lower primary class (primary 3), and i applied the same process evaluation like last year that i did for primary 5 children.<\/p>\n<p>When i told them to queue up, they really did. Obediently these little children queued up, waiting for their turn patiently, and then sit down listening to my evaluation, and were very glad when i gave them good mark.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d always remember the smiles on their faces. Have been for some times i&#8217;ve not seen such beauty and innocence. Smile of a little child\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s surely a good medicine for whatever my circumtance&#8230;burdened heart, tired body, and downcasted soul. Yes&#8230;even all their body actions expreses those joy inside&#8230;.leaping on their feet, hands on top their heads, shouting out loud&#8230;..how i love them. Even the small and not pretty girl, she looks so adorable and lovely.<\/p>\n<p>That morning i knew, that not only i enjoy children, but actually i&#8217;ve fallen in love with them. They almost all the time never fail to show me the childlike faith, trust, simplicity, and sincerity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last sunday was really wonderful It&#8217;s always fun and refreshing to be among children and being with them. Even for 1 hour, it&#8217;s just fantastic. Last Sunday however it&#8217;s quite special. This year i&#8217;m taking lower primary class (primary 3), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/the-joy-from-little-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,33,67],"tags":[132,214,228],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessedness","category-joyful","category-thankful","tag-children","tag-joy","tag-ministry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/unending-struggles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1079,"position":0},"title":"Unending Struggles","author":"clay","date":"April 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank God for last week. 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