Jesus [said], "One who seeks will find, and for [one who knocks] it will be opened." (94 Thomas)

What am I seeking?

The first prayer I can remember offering was a request to remain child-like in my engagement with the world.

The words whispered were something like, "Dear God, help me avoid the not-seeing of most grown-ups."

At age nine or ten I perceived that as most moved from childhood they would adopt a predictable set of explanations and expectations.

In effect they would stop seeing, stop seeking, and choose a kind of intellectual and spiritual stasis that seemed to me false and often boring.

I prayed for God's help in seeking the new, surprising, and always changing.

The synoptic parallels are Luke 11:9-13 and Matthew 7:7-11.