"Say that you rail and your rail with your children about all kinds of things: drugs and rock music and Christian music and weak Christianity and sugar and white bread and recycling and ‘those’ people and bad literature and mud on their boots and dirty houses and vaccinations and feeding babies and chocolate and vitamins and natural childbirth, how will your children know which of these things is really important? Maybe one day they find out that some Christians eat sugar and they are nice lovely people who truly love the Lord but from hearing you day in and day out he thought that anyone who ate sugar had a free ticket to hell. Now every single thing you have tried to teach your child ever has been undermined by your passionate intensity." from http://dominionfamily.com/blog/ which I found at http://www.humblemusings.com/ .
I have considered this often when beginning to date after my divorce and now having dated Donnie for two years. There are several things that we don't have in common, but the really important, like altering, eternal things we do. I can be passionate about lots of things that are not really worth the little bit of time I have to devote to being passionate! But, how do we know if we are "supposed" to give something energy? What if MLK decided that inequality wasn't an eternal issue and didn't poor his life into changing that? Am I suppose to be so passionate about breastfeeding that I help change the way Americans view it? Or, am I suppose to poor my life into helping create legislation that protects children from poorly tested vaccinations? Or maybe, just maybe, I am supposed to learn how to keep my kitchen sink clean, my laundry done and my children fed (not fast food- really fed!), all while speaking kindly to them.
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I feel your pain, Hannah :) I do think there is way more power in the little things than we will ever know.
great question "how will your children know which of these things is really important?"
Each of your children will pick their
issues to rail...and some of these issues may drive you crazy and some will make you proud. And the years will pass and Jacob may marry a woman who will insist on circumsizing their little baby boy, and maybe Olivia will feed her kids fruit loops...Emma will probably do everything perfectly especially if she marries Abraham!!! But at the end of the day you'll be so happy that they are responsible, decent, loving people that are no longer around to mess up your house!
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