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The Bible Says
Whenever your children are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God’s omnipotence did not extend to His own children. After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing he said was “DON’T!” “Don’t what?” Adam replied. “Don’t eat the forbidden fruit.” God said. “Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit? Hey Eve . . . we have forbidden fruit!!!!!” God said: “Don’t eat the forbidden fruit.” “Why?” “Because I am your Father and I said so.” God replied, wondering why He hadn’t stopped creation after making the elephants. A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break and He was angry! “Didn’t I tell you not to eat that fruit?” God asked. “Uh huh,” Adam replied. “Then why did you?” said the Father. “I don’t know,” said Eve. “She started it!” Adam said. “Did not!” “Did too!” “Did not!” Having had it with the two of them, God’s punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed. But there is reassurance in the story! If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven’t taken it, don’t be hard on yourself. If God had trouble raising children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
-Sent in by Barbara Steele, abridged - e-mail 4-26-2005 “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
-Kate Douglas Wiggin “Childhood is like a mirror which reflects in afterlife the images presented to it.”
-Samual Smiles. “Good manners require a great deal of time, as does a wise treatment of children.”
-Emerson “There is nothing thirstier than a child who has just gone to bed”-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “Children are poor men’s riches.”
-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “We should consider not so much what the child is today as what he may become tomorrow.”
-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “Today’s unchurched child is tomorrow’s criminal.”
-J. Edgar Hoover. “Train up a child in the way he should go and go that way yourself, that child is your second chance.”
-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “Our children are the only earthly possessions we can take with us to glory.”
-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “Child by child we build our nation.”
-Prize-winning slogan. “The more children’s fingerprints in a home, the fewer on police records.”
-The Speaker’s Sourcebook. “Children are natural mimics—they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.”“Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord” (Psalm 127:3).
Of an old house on the hill, Of a yard all wide and blossom-starred Where the children played at will. And when the night at last came down, Hushing the merry din, Mother would look around and ask, “Are all the children in?” ‘Tis many and many a year since then, And the old house on the hill No longer echoes to children’s feet, And the yard is still, so still. And I see it all as the shadows creep, Even now I can hear my mother ask, “Are all the children in?” I wonder if, when the shadows fall On the last short earthly day, When we say goodbye to the world outside, All tired with our childish play, When we step out into that other land Where mother so long has been, Will we hear her ask, as she did of old, “Are all the children in?” And I wonder, too, what the Lord will say, To the older children of His, Have we cared for the lambs? Have we showed them the fold? A privilege joyful it is. And I wonder, what our answers will be, When His loving questions begin: Have you heeded My voice? Have you told of My love? Have you brought My children in?
-Author unknown; last verse by Marion Bishop Bower. “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.” (Psalm 127:3-5).Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.” (Psalm 128:3)
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