The Soul of a Child--amazing!

My awesome mother-in-law gave me "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton...this quote captures my amazement with children, "When a child is conceived, when a human nature comes into being as an individual, concrete, subsisting thing, a life a person, then God's image is minted into the world. A free, vital, self-moving entity, a spirit informing flesh, a complex of energies ready to be set into fruitful motion begins to flame with potential light and understanding and virtue, begins to flame with love, without which no spirit can exist. It is ready to realize NO ONE KNOWS what grandeurs....The soul is the life of this being, and the life of the soul is the love that unites it to the principle of all life--God."