Become Like Children

There once was a little boy who walked into an ice cream parlour with a piggy bank in his hand.

As he stood there looking at the showcase, he asked the attendant for the price of a big cup of ice cream. The attendant said, “It is seventy-five cents.” The boy then emptied his piggy bank and ended up with a big bunch of one-cent coins in his hand. After counting them carefully, he asked the attendant again, ‘“What about the smaller cup?”

Irritated at the amount of time she was wasting on this boy, she rudely answered, “Sixty-five cents – if you want it take it, otherwise please leave …”

The little boy gently said to her, “No, I am sorry. Please give me a small cup of chocolate ice cream.”

When she counted the coins he had given her, she said to him, “But you’ve given me seventy-five cents!” The boy answered, “Yes, ten of those one cent coins are your tip.”

Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.
_{Bible, Matthew 18:3}