Sometimes, well more often then I like really, I get irritated with how people behave toward others. Honestly, how can we raise our children to be loving and kind and help those less fortunate if we don't set the example? When the day is done, where have your laid up your treasures?
I am not impressed with material goods. I'll be just as friendly with the lady that cleans the rooms at the local motel as the university professor that teaches classes at the local college. Occupation doesn't make a person compassionate, worthy of friendship or any other myriad of things that people judge by. Let me repeat that again. I don't care if you push a broom or you sit on your rear end managing a multimillion dollar company, what makes you a good person is deeper than that. I am impressed with kindness shown toward others, YES, KINDNESS. Love toward others rather than the pumping up of your own inadequacies.
Ouch. Well if it stings a little, maybe you need to examine yourself and what you find important in life. Don't treat others badly. It's just wrong. We try to raise our children to be nice and to share, yet how can they learn if the person they look up to the most is a rotten example? Let's call it right. A rotten, smelly example of how to treat others, even those in a different position than yourself. We all walk different paths and just because someone doesn't live in the "best neighborhood" or have the "best occupation" doesn't mean they are unworthy of notice or friendship. This elitist attitude must change.
We reap what we sow. I am far from perfect, but I do try to be kind and understanding of people in all stations of life. We want our daughter to not judge on material goods but rather on the fruits a person produces. What fruit are your children seeing on your vine? Is it one of love toward others? Only you can really know what fruits you're showing. Let's all start this day with a new and encouraging spirit. Let's all try to show a little love and treat people as we want to be treated.
Blessings
Friday, October 29, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Allow me to introduce you too....
I would like to intorduce you to Kamieo Photography. If you are in teh South Sound Area check her out. Her blog is located at http://kamieophotography.blogspot.com/2010/10/2000-fans-giveaway-time.html and you can find her on facebook. She's running some contests right now. Become her fan and then enter her give aways!
Also, check out Jessica Johnson who did our family pictures this year. She is a great photographer and fantastic to work with. Her facebook page is: http://www.facebook.com/southernportraits?ref=ts Become her fan also. Thank you!
Also, check out Jessica Johnson who did our family pictures this year. She is a great photographer and fantastic to work with. Her facebook page is: http://www.facebook.com/southernportraits?ref=ts Become her fan also. Thank you!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
What really matters
What makes a home? Is it a roof, the walls, the things in the home or is it something more? Is it the people who reside in the home or does it go even deeper?
I really think we adults could learn a lot from Clifford. I mean, just listen to his stories. How often do we forget the lessons we learn as children as the demands of life change who we once were? Can our home remain strong if we sell out ourselves for a few pieces of silver? I guess the answer can only come from within your own heart.
Children don't need or really need or even want all the things we think they must have to have a great childhood. The greatest thing a parent can leave their child is faith and love. My own father was not a wealthy man. he worked hard as a caregiver, and yet I feel that my brothers and I have been left with a legacy that we can and should pass on to our own children. My parents tended their garden wells. We children were their garden.
When the day is done, what did you do for your children? Did you buy them every want yet left them in the care of others for hours, or neglected them as you worked late on paperwork you brought home? Children would rather have your time, not your money. Needs must be met but many things we call needs are nothing more than wants. Do you really need that program for your kids or would your time and energy be better spent playing with them in the park or laughing with them as you both are digging in the sandbox in your own back yard? What do you think they will remember next week more? Next year? Ten years from now? When you pass away and they are speaking at your funeral, will they talk about all the things you bought them, or will they instead be talking about all the time you spent doing things (ordinary things, like flying the kite in the spring, playing barbie dolls in the afternoon, teaching them how to fish, or reading the same story over and over again, with nary a sigh) with them?
So in the end, that cup you're hoping to win one day in the race you keep running, it's just an empty cup unless it's filled with the real legacy of love you leave; and then I hope it's overfilling.
Happy Tending!
I really think we adults could learn a lot from Clifford. I mean, just listen to his stories. How often do we forget the lessons we learn as children as the demands of life change who we once were? Can our home remain strong if we sell out ourselves for a few pieces of silver? I guess the answer can only come from within your own heart.
Children don't need or really need or even want all the things we think they must have to have a great childhood. The greatest thing a parent can leave their child is faith and love. My own father was not a wealthy man. he worked hard as a caregiver, and yet I feel that my brothers and I have been left with a legacy that we can and should pass on to our own children. My parents tended their garden wells. We children were their garden.
When the day is done, what did you do for your children? Did you buy them every want yet left them in the care of others for hours, or neglected them as you worked late on paperwork you brought home? Children would rather have your time, not your money. Needs must be met but many things we call needs are nothing more than wants. Do you really need that program for your kids or would your time and energy be better spent playing with them in the park or laughing with them as you both are digging in the sandbox in your own back yard? What do you think they will remember next week more? Next year? Ten years from now? When you pass away and they are speaking at your funeral, will they talk about all the things you bought them, or will they instead be talking about all the time you spent doing things (ordinary things, like flying the kite in the spring, playing barbie dolls in the afternoon, teaching them how to fish, or reading the same story over and over again, with nary a sigh) with them?
So in the end, that cup you're hoping to win one day in the race you keep running, it's just an empty cup unless it's filled with the real legacy of love you leave; and then I hope it's overfilling.
Happy Tending!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Harvest time, time to gather together the fruits.
Well it's been a few busy as bees months since I last updated this blog. I must get with it and keep it more updated!
Sarah is growing like a weed. We made a trip to Disneyland California a this week. Every parent should get to experience Disneyland through the eyes of their excited child. It can make you rethink some simple pleasures. Children can be made happy with simple things and simple joys. To an adult we think of Disney land as an adventure that can be fast and spendy, until we enter it's gates with a child.
The key is to capture that magic and tuck it into our pockets and then try to keep the magic or feeling if you will alive. Tending your garden and thus the garden of your child and others around you on an emotional level. Much how God tells us too, not that I am equating Disneyland with God, but trying to draw a parallel that many can understand.
God says we are to be like little children, maybe Disneyland is just a start to capturing the awe in the world again. Let's keep the magic alive, and see the awe and wonder in everything. Holding each day as one to be treasured deeply and cherish the loved one we have.
Happy Tending!
Sarah is growing like a weed. We made a trip to Disneyland California a this week. Every parent should get to experience Disneyland through the eyes of their excited child. It can make you rethink some simple pleasures. Children can be made happy with simple things and simple joys. To an adult we think of Disney land as an adventure that can be fast and spendy, until we enter it's gates with a child.
The key is to capture that magic and tuck it into our pockets and then try to keep the magic or feeling if you will alive. Tending your garden and thus the garden of your child and others around you on an emotional level. Much how God tells us too, not that I am equating Disneyland with God, but trying to draw a parallel that many can understand.
God says we are to be like little children, maybe Disneyland is just a start to capturing the awe in the world again. Let's keep the magic alive, and see the awe and wonder in everything. Holding each day as one to be treasured deeply and cherish the loved one we have.
Happy Tending!
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