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Gentle guidance: Be Like A Child

This post is part of Mary’s archived writings from 2010–2025. Some older posts may mention products, courses or shop items that are no longer available. Mary’s book is still available on Amazon , and she now offers her active support inside her private Facebook group for widows .

Be Like A Child

By Mary Francis · Originally published: June 26, 2020

Archive notice: This is a historical post from Mary’s years of blogging. Some older posts may mention products, courses or shop items that are no longer available, as Mary now focuses her time and energy on supporting widows inside her private Facebook community. The guidance and stories remain here as a free resource for widows.

For current ways to connect with Mary’s work, you can:

Read her book on Amazon .
Request to join her private Facebook group for widows .

Grief robs us of our joy, our interest in life and our future as we knew it. To get this back we need to be like a child.

Be curious like a child. They ask a million questions. They want to learn and grow
Learn to be excited like a child. There is nothing quite like the magic of a child’s excitement – think Christmas morning. If you’re too old to get excited, you’re old. Period.
Have the faith of a child. They believe that they can get anything, while we have a tendency to be cynical.
Trust in others, children naturally trust in the good of others.

The great challenge in all of this is that to have more in life, you need to become more. The major difference is what you Do and Believe. It’s amazingly simple – when we start becoming more ourselves, everything else will begin to change around us. Death and grief are not reserved for the poor and uneducated or rich and well educated. In the final analysis, it is what we choose to do that matters - so take some time to be like a child.