Mark 10:16 Meaning He Took Them in His Arms

To bless is not to add something a mind was lacking but to see the innocence that was always there and reflect it back until the mind can see it too. The gesture asks nothing and changes nothing in the body; it changes only how the one held is perceived, and being perceived as innocent, remembers that it is. This is the miracle, a shift in seeing that lifts another out of the dream of guilt.

What love beholds becomes visible to the one beheld. To be gathered in and blessed is to be looked upon without judgment, and that look is itself the healing. The mind that receives it learns it was never the frightened thing it believed, but the beloved it had forgotten to be.

Arms: the enclosure of love that holds without condition, the acceptance that leaves nothing outside itself. Hands: the extension of the mind toward another, the reaching that gives rather than grasps.