My car was in the shop today and I took the bus to work. While waiting there a man and women, in their 20s I'd say, arrived with their young daughter and younger son. For the 5-10 minutes I was waiting it seemed that all the parents could do was criticize and chastise their children. I hurt for the children and for the family as a whole.
Why is it that the things we should love and cherish the most are treated so lightly? Why was it that these children, these gifts from God were so little valued? Where have we as a society gone that this is the daily behavior in so many families?
Let us remember Christ and how he loved little children and how He also said it would be better to be drowned than to offend a child.
Look at your children through the eyes of God, who was their Father before you were their parent. Love them even a little like He loves them, and like He loves you as well, for we are all children of God.
1 comment:
I also cringe when I hear moms in the stores harshly screaming at their children, or saying awful things.
We live in a world that is increasingly feeling the evil that is clouding much of our world.
Could also be that what you witnessed was just a really bad day for that little family. We all have those too.
=) Whow knows?
The way I loook at it, is we need to just be out there doing as much good as we possibly can in all the little ways and big ways that we can too!
Sunlight clears away the clouds.
Bev
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