A Case for Child-Like Wonder in a Grown-Up World

Abby McCloskey, Bloomberg Opinion, December 22, 2025

“Are we too grown-up to believe that there might be a realm of things we might not understand? For that to spark a chill of fear, some humility? And maybe - if we can get past that terror of the cosmos being far more than we could possibly imagine let alone control, filled with powers and principalities as the Christian teachings go  - might there actually be more room for hope.

That maybe a Savior was born unto us after all.  That the childlike wonder points to something we haven’t allowed ourselves to see. “