The sweet innocence of a child

This morning before I had to take Cameron to school I was sitting in my room watching the news and playing on facebook. I noticed the video that my dad put together awhile back that he title "Bob's Excellent Adventures," it is a bunch of pictures from some of his trips to Iraq. One of the pictures showed Saddam Hussein's throne. Cameron asked whose throne it was. So i told him. He asked who he was and I told him that he was a bad man, but we didn't have to worry about him anymore. He asked what he did that made him bad. I told him that he allowed a lot of people to die. It is hard not to be graphic when you talk about someone who did some horrific crimes against people. Then he asked what happened to him. I told him that the people where he lived decided that it would be best if he weren't there anymore to hurt people, so he died. Cameron sat there for a few moments thinking about it, then he quietly said, "But Jesus still loves him." It was a simple statement with such innocence. Yes Cameron, no matter what we may do in this life our Savior will always love us. Think how much more that love will mean to us when we strive to live our lives to mirror His. I haven't done anything horrific in my life, but the things that I do wrong it is nice to know that I can repent and be forgiven. And that as much as I love my children, even when they do wrong, my Heavenly Father loves me even more.