Aren't Children Marvelous to Watch?

Just wanted to share this photo. I took the picture on March 18th in Spring Lake, NJ. I don't know who this child is but it gave me so much pleasure to watch him and his siblings play in the surf of the mighty Atlantic. Currently I am reading a book entitled, "The Holy Longing" by Ronald Rolheiser and I would like to share a quote from it pertaining to children. ( By the way I highly recommend this author. He writes on the subject of spirituality in a beautiful, human way.
" Delight is rare for adults, though not for children. If you want to see what delight looks like, go by any school yard sometime when kids. little kids, kindergartners and first graders, come out for their recess break. They simply run around and shriek. Now that's delight. This, the spontaneous response to the goodness and beauty of life, not the commercialized tapes of someone expounding the merist of positive thinking, is what non-depression sounds like. When you see a child in a high chair, just fed, shouting and throwing Jell-O and mashed potatoes around the room, you are party to delight - and you are also party to something that, outside of children, is exceedingly rare. In Western culture, the joyous shouting of children often irritates us because it interferes with our depression. That is why we have invented a term, hyperactivity, so that we can, in good conscience, sedate the spontaneous joy in many of our children."