Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.