A Child's Faith

I just came across this poem today while looking through one of my cook books.
So thought i would share it here.

A Child's Faith

"Jesus loves me, this I know,

For the Bible tells me so"_

Little children ask no more,

For love is all they're looking for,

And in a small child's shining eyes

The FAITH of all the ages lies---

And tiny hands and tousled heads

That kneels in prayer by little beds

Are closer to the dear Lord's heart

And of His Kingdom more a part

Than we who search, and never find;

The answers to our questioning mind-

For FAITH in things we cannot see

Requires a child's simplicity

For, lost in life's complexities,

We drift upon uncharted seas

And slowly Faith disintegrates

While wealth and power accumulates-

And the more man learns, the less he knows,

And the more involved his thinking grows

ANd, in his arrogance and pride,

no longer is man satisfied

To place his confidence and love-

With childlike FAITH in GOD above-

Oh, Farther grant once more to men

A simple childlike FAITH again

And, with small child's trusting eyes,

May all people come to realize

That FAITH alone can save man's soul

And lead him to a HIGHER GOAL.

Helen Steiner Rice