Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live. For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one." (4 Thomas)

Innocence can - and should - inform experience. Too often what experience teaches is wrong.

Experience can teach caution, suspicion, distrust, and self-assertion. Innocence is open, curious, joyful, and loving.

Experience not grounded in God's intention ends in darkness. Innocence and experience faithfully combined can be a source of perpetual wisdom.