Yes I do.
And sometimes they actually see what we do not, such as the three children at Fatima.
We are asked to be like children by a Our Lord for good reason I think, not childlike but see with simple humble and innocent eyes the Truth.
When I was ten I was in a public area in a hotel in Spain and an elderly gentleman I’d met before sat down next to me and said “do you see that over there?” I looked but saw nothing. He continued “do you see, them, Plato and the others?’ I said “yes.” But I lied. Perhaps I wasn’t innocent enough or perhaps he’d started drinking early.
Yes.
They aren’t as preoccupied with too many responsibilities, so they can notice things like that blue jay up in the tree, or a caterpiggle on the sidewalk, or the rainbow in the sky.
But if you’d like to reverse all that, put an electronic device in their hands and they’ll be as oblivious as the rest of us.
I saw dead people when I was a child. As an adult, I no longer have that gift. Yes, I believe young children have a much different understanding of the world and their surroundings than us older folks do.
I remember going into Adoration with my 3yo. The chapel was totally silent as everyone was wrapped in their own prayers. My 3yo whispers to me, “Mommy, what is that voice on the mikey-phone?”
I should have said, “I didn’t hear any voice,” but I was self-conscious because I had someone else with me. So instead, I said, “There wasn’t any voice.”
But my 3yo said, “There was a voice on the mikey-phone, and it said ‘Hello’.”
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