We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

Sharon Kay Penman
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We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they? We take our children for granted and forget that they are counting on us to protect them. Sometimes it is hard to see the pain of others because we are not looking at it through children’s eyes.

Source: The Sunne In Splendour

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