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\u201dDad, I can\u2019t find my shoe!\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe Dusavage from Wappingers Falls, New York, was getting ready for work when he heard his four-year-old son, Jake, call for him. Joe went to find Jake standing in the middle of his room with only one tennis shoe on.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust think,\u201d Joe said. \u201cWhere was the last place you had it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Jake said. \u201cBut those are my favorites.\u201d<\/p>\n

They searched all over the house\u2014in closets, under beds and couches\u2014but it was nowhere to be found. Joe checked his watch. If they didn\u2019t find it soon, he would be late for work, and Jake would be late for school.<\/p>\n

\u201cJake, I think only God knows where that shoe is.\u201d Joe sighed. Jake suddenly stopped what he was doing and looked upward.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod, where is my shoe?\u201d he calmly asked.<\/p>\n

Jake listened for a second. Then, as if following a direction, he went over to a box of toys in the corner of his room and lifted it up. Underneath his was the missing tennis shoe. Joe watched as Jake put his shoe on and grabbed his backpack\u2014like what he experienced was an everyday occurrence.<\/p>\n

Did four-year-old Jake really hear a direction from God? Why was the act of asking so automatic for him? And, if he did hear God, why didn\u2019t it startle him? His story begs the question: Do children have a natural connection to the divine<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Stories in the Bible point to yes. Samuel was only 12 years old when, lying in bed one night, he heard the voice of God calling his name. Josiah was eight years old when he became king of Jerusalem and \u201cdid what was right in the eyes of the LORD\u201d (2 Chronicles 34:2). Psalm 127:3 tells us children are a direct gift from God, stating, \u201cChildren are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

If children do have a preternatural connection to God, where does it come from? Children exhibit signs of having a strong connection to the divine even without stepping foot in a church or attending religious classes. And this doesn\u2019t seem to surprise them at all.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lisa Miller is a professor and clinical psychologist at Columbia University who studies the scientific understanding of spirituality<\/a>. She became fascinated with the subject after having her own profound spiritual experiences as a child. She remembers how easy it was simply to open her heart and feel God\u2019s presence. \u201cI could just see the numinousness of life all around me,\u201d she said. In graduate school, she decided it would be her life\u2019s work to understand this.<\/p>\n

Dr. Miller studies the psychological impact of a relationship with God in our lives. In her book The Spiritual Child<\/i>, she focuses on the spiritual lives of children and teenagers. \u201cChildren are innately spiritual beings,\u201d she explains. \u201cThey naturally connect to God. They can feel guided or know something without being told.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Miller, our brains have what she defines as \u201cimplicit spiritual cognition.\u201d She says her own research, as well as other scientific studies over the last 20 years, points to spirituality being a naturally occurring development in our brains, from both a biological and psychological standpoint. Perhaps most fascinating is her discovery that spiritual cognition appears to be well formed in children and something they are able to easily express. \u201cSpirituality is not something that needs to be taught to children, like math or the piano,\u201d she says. \u201cChildren are not blank slates; they have a direct knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cdirect knowing\u201d can come in the form of mystical experiences, such as a divine dream, hearing God\u2019s voice<\/a> or having insight into something a child normally wouldn\u2019t know or understand.<\/p>\n

Charles Myers from Alameda, California, experienced this firsthand. Charles was leaving church one evening when a little girl, around five years old, came up to him and gave him a flower she had picked. \u201cThis is for your mom,\u201d she said. Then she walked away. Charles appreciated the thoughtful gift but didn\u2019t know what to make of it. On his walk home, he suddenly remembered what day it was: June 4. The anniversary of his mother\u2019s death, 10 years before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d seen the little girl and her family around church, but I didn\u2019t know them well,\u201d Charles said. \u201cThere is no way she could have known the importance of that day. It was as if God had impressed on this little girl\u2019s mind to give me a flower.\u201d<\/p>\n

This powerful connection to the divine doesn\u2019t stop as we leave childhood. In fact, Dr. Miller says we go through a spiritual surge in our teenage years. \u201cDuring physical puberty, there is an augmentation in our capacity for transcendent awareness and experiences,\u201d she says. The Bible also points to this. David was still a teenager when he was called by God to defeat Goliath. Timothy was a young adult when Paul took him in as a pupil to help spread God\u2019s word. Mystics throughout history<\/a> have reported their teenage years as being times of great spiritual awakening. Joan of Arc reportedly began to hear the voice of God at 12 or 13 years old. Saint Therese of Lisieux decided to join a Carmelite convent at the age of 15 due to a miraculous healing during her childhood.<\/p>\n

Various religions around the world understand this age to be a spiritually important time. In the Jewish faith, children have a bar or bat mitzvah at 12 or 13 years old. Children in Catholic and some other Christian churches have their confirmation between ages 11 to 17. In the Navajo tradition, teenage girls participate in a spiritual coming-of-age ceremony called kinaald\u00e1<\/i> that includes blessings and singing.<\/p>\n

In her book, Dr. Miller also points to important anecdotal evidence she has found while talking with teenagers about transcendent awareness. During a talk she held at a high school, one student shared a profound spiritual experience she had her junior year while on a hiking trip. The student explained how she was sitting by a lake and suddenly felt connected to everything around her. She described the moment as sacred. \u201cConsider the qualities we associate with the most deeply meditative state or spiritual way of being: love and compassion, mindfulness, acceptance, a sense of oneness with all, and innate connection to nature,\u201d Dr. Miller writes in her book. \u201cThe child starts there, in a sacred transcendent relationship<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most important ways a child\u2019s spirituality manifests is through something else they are born with: wonder. This emotion is a vital part of our spiritual lives. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking spoke on the importance of holding on to our \u201cchildlike wonder\u201d as we study the universe. That childlike wonder Hawking refers to can strengthen our relationship with God and define how we see the world around us.<\/p>\n

Joe Dusavage had an experience with this too, years before the moment with Jake and his missing shoe. It involved his older son, Coleman. Jake, an infant at the time, was being christened at their church. During the ceremony, Coleman, five years old, sat in the pews with his father. Afterward, Coleman tugged on Joe\u2019s sleeve. \u201dGrandpa Joe and Aunt Julie were here!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Joe stared at his son, confused. His father, also named Joe, and older sister, Julie, had died years ago. Coleman had heard their names in passing, but he\u2019d never brought them up on his own before. Joe told Coleman that Grandpa Joe and Aunt Julie weren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, they were,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cThey were standing in the back of the church watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe felt comforted knowing his father and sister were there in spirit that day. It was the same for Charles Myers, who took the flower the little girl gave him as a sign from God that his mother was still with him. These moments with children not only provide divine solace, but they show us how God reaches out to us and how we can react. Much like how his brother would respond years later, what Coleman experienced seemed a matter of fact for him. It was simple. Yet Joe was not able to see or hear anything in either case.<\/p>\n

Children and teens are more spiritually open to mystical experiences like these because they haven\u2019t yet absorbed society\u2019s tendency to approach mystical experiences with skepticism. \u201cToo often we [adults] step back or actively discourage [children and teens] from cultivating their spiritual selves, in essence train them away from the inquiry,\u201d writes Dr. Miller in her book. As adults actively foster a child\u2019s spirituality, it will help them to maintain that connection into adulthood. Even if as an adult we feel less connected to God, observing young people\u2019s unbridled, nonjudgmental connection with the divine can help us reframe our own spiritual perspectives.<\/p>\n

Joe\u2019s thoughts on his son\u2019s experience highlight why it\u2019s important to look to children for our own spiritual growth. \u201cGod reaches us through our children,\u201d said Joe, \u201cbecause children are not clouded with the other distractions of life. They are very much in touch with what they see and feel right in front of them.\u201d Burdens and stress can often distract us from the moments when God is trying to reach out to us. After all, 1 Timothy 4:12 tells us that young people can be an example for us \u201cin speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.\u201d Perhaps looking at how children innately connect and listen to the divine is an important lesson in how to approach our faith as adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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