"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." - Psalm 37:4.  Desires are the "Keys to the Kingdom".  The Hawaiian and Japanese culture might say desires are the Ki to life, the energy of life and divine intervention.  As children we perceive this energy very clearly.  As a child your perceptions have not been clouded by the "big" things in adult life.  Kids are not as cognitively developed as grown-ups.  To the adult this lack of mental ability seems to be a disadvantage.  However, it is really a problem for those of us grown-ups who have lost the clarity of childhood.  It has our deficiency rather than their disadvantage.  "Truly I say to you that unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom the Heaven."  Matthew 18:3.

     This last scripture was the favorite quote of St. Therese.  She called the "being as a little child, the little way".  She felt that the way to lead a truly spiritual life did not require enormity in spiritual acts.  She believed that to be truly spiritual one must follow their heart's desire and maintain the "little way" in their every day activities.  St. Therese or as she is lovingly known "the little flower" received her sainthood for following her heart's desire.  She accepted the energy of her desires as divine interventions.  She followed so greatly her desire to be a nun that she asked the Pope himself if he might intercede and bend the rules allowing her to enter a convent at the age of 15.  This was an extraordinary act in the late 1800's.

     St. Therese made a conscious decision to be a saint and she decided that she would do this by following "the little way."  What St. Therese did was to choose to live outside her ego as very young children often do.  She didn't ignore her desire to be a saint and was therefore able to bypass her ego and avoid self sabotage.  This allowed her to take the steps she needed to reach sainthood and fulfill her heart's desire.

     God gives us desires to guide us in finding and following our life path.  Basically we blow off all this celestial intervention to be our "adult" self.  We have come to see and think that desires are illogical and only belong in childhood.  By doing this we have killed our passion and stifled our creativity.  We have caused ourselves to lead flat and malcontented lives.  The solution to this dissatisfaction is to take on the little way and follow your desires.

     To jump start the reclaiming of our childhood powers, do something you would have done as a kid.  Maybe this means jumping off a pier into a lake over and over and over, and maybe this means playing a game of "ghost in the graveyard" or "statue", coloring or dress-up can be effective too!  How about doing anything just for the pure joy of experiencing it?  These simple pleasures will take you out of the mundane big person's world you have become trapped in and lead you back to yourself and straight to your heart's desire.