10 things I know:
(1) Water intake (or lack of) really does show up on my face the next day!
(2) There was nothing earthly or eternally valuable in my casual dating experience, much less my co-habitation with the man I eventually did marry.
(3) Pleasures of the flesh really are fun! I won't strengthen my children toward an obedient walk with the Lord by pretending that they aren't.
(3) Excess weight gain is harder to take off than I thought it would be while I was putting it on.
(4) Some friends are fair-weathered; some are just busy.
(5) Humiliation becomes easier to take the more I practice.
(6) Children start to have a life-long, conscience remembrance of most things at about 10 (give or take).
(7) Anticipation is a very good parenting tool to possess, though I'm sure it's going to put me in the ground a few years earlier than if I were blissfully ignorant.
(8) Children who count their siblings and parents as closer than their peers are more secure. Not more popular -- but more secure and ultimately productive.
(9) There really are at least 2 sides to every story.
(10) Telling a lost soul about the Lord Jesus Christ leaves me with an almost tangible souvenir of eternity.
4 comments:
I like number 10 the very best. There's nothing like it!
#8 and #10....things I know, but need to be reminded of...thanks. Have a blessed joyful, Christ-honoring day!
I agree with #8, but please tell me how you accomplish this. I have yet to have any success in that department.
I also agree with 3. I have taken that approach when teaching my children about sin knowing that my mother always used the word "dirty". I think that just made me more curious about the forbidden fruit.
Joy...you're a homeschooler...I believe that, right there, gives us an advantage in reaching the goal to develop the strongest bonds between our children.
Someone recently asked me if my three girls got along well (because they are very different personalities and ages) and my honest response was, "They have to! They're all they've got!"
Not strictly true (they do have friends) but mostly true.
It's like anything else, isn't it? Take away that which is in the way of a good thing, and the path toward that good thing is easier to find and follow.
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