Psychological and spiritual maturity are among the prized attributes of adulthood. Immaturity, childishness, and even childlikeness, on the other hand, are usually disdained and considered a sign of a failure to develop and flourish. However, for most—if not all—of us our progress towards full maturity and wholeness is anything but smooth, uniform, or orderly. Instead, we tend to move forward by fits and starts—sometimes even one step forward and two steps back. Indeed, at some point we may finally realize that we are building on shaky foundations and that the only way we can come to full maturity (and thus enter the kingdom) is by the complete dismantling of who we think we are. In this dismantling and dis-integration, we may feel like we are regressing back to childhood—and, in one sense, this is what needs to occur. For it is by starting anew and undertaking our spiritual journey with a childlike trust and an unreserved abandonment to the One in whose image we are made, that the kingdom can begin to take shape within us. Unfortunately, rare is the person who does not need to repeat this return to a childlike state more than once. Usually, it requires repeated attempts until our childlike trust and surrender to God’s merciful and saving love becomes permanent and transforms our lives. And it is only the one so transformed who can truly accept the Kingdom of God and fully enter into it.