Sunday, October 18, 2009

Amidst the Craziness


They are idols of hearts and of household!
They are angels of God in disguise;
The sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
His glory still gleams in their eyes;
These truants from home and from Heaven,
They have made me more gentle and mild;
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.

-Charles M. Dickinson




From The Children, in Jack M. Lyon and others, editors, Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People (1996), 21.