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Be Not Afraid The Childlike spiritChapter 6The Childlike spiritAs adults, we often seek answers to life’s riddles bytrying to analyze events and causes. Sometimes thisworks; more often it doesn’t. In matters of illness anddeath especially, it seems that there is always an elementof mystery – something that leaves us in need of morethan our own explanations. This is not true of children,however, who tend to possess a greater tolerance formystery. Even if they tend to fret over what we adultsmight see as “little things,” they are generally far moreaccepting of life as it unfolds, and are not so boggeddown by doubts, questions, and worries over the future.They are also more matter-of-fact about the things thatadults fuss over, exaggerate, or over-interpret.Cassie Bernall, a Colorado teen whose death madeheadlines after the infamous Columbine High Schoolmassacre of April 1999, is a case in point. Confrontedby two armed classmates in her high school librarywith the question, “Do you believe in God?” she0