Where We Come From

For the most part I think, people grow up saying, "I'm not going to be like so-in-so. I'm going to be better than... I'm going to be somebody and make my mark in society."


But how many of us actually rearrange our lives to change the patterns that were set about from our parents and so forth. And how much precaution are we willing to take?


I am a mother of 2 tots. They have been given to my husband and I for learning how to be godly productive members of society and to prepare them as much as possible for service to God. We are to love, guide and protect them - naturally and spiritually.
Many of us focus more on the natural part of raising children, I believe, and less on the spiritual. But the truth is that our children are spiritual beings who possess a soul and live in a body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Teaching a child worldly success still never answers the questions of the heart and spirit. We are all built with a desire to worship something (whether we think so or not). Everyone lifts a hand to something (worships); the melodies of a great sounding song, a talent, a dj in a club, money, ourselves, another person, an idea... there is always something.


Anyway, I got off point. My point is that in order to change our courses in life, sometimes we have to do what has not likely be done by those that raised us. The times have changed. We have to pay more attention to our children and to those around our children. We have to be careful to guard what they hear, see and experience at certain ages. We have to watch who we allow to care for them.