Drawing on the distinction between being childish and being childlike, Rev. Dr. Hedy Collver explores what it might mean to reclaim some of the qualities we often associate with childhood — not naïveté, but openness; not emotional impulsiveness, but honesty; not escapism, but the capacity for joy, curiosity, and wonder. In a world that gives us plenty of reasons to become guarded, cynical, and overwhelmed, perhaps becoming more fully human means recovering some of what we once knew instinctively.