“And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me...’” (Mark 9:36) I feel sorry for the poor kid who happened to be there the day Jesus decided to use him as an “object lesson.” No child likes being used in this way.  Some of us can remember being stood up before a group of adults and having our parents ask us to recite something we’d just learned in school.  Or being made to sit down at the piano and play some stupid little piece for our family’s friends.  We wanted to shrink into the woodwork and become invisible..  How humiliating!  Frederick Buechner describes the boy in these words: “Jesus...puts his hands on his shoulders so he won’t make a run for it.  The child stands wide-eye…