The heart of the human being often becomes a rejected treasure that children begin to hide when they do not experience themselves as pursued and affirmed. This common experience is a great sadness. When the heart is experienced as the enemy of the child, then God, too, can become intuitively and improperly feared, distrusted, or given up. If one’s expressions of feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope are distrusted, showing our selves to others and God will likewise be d