LEARNING TO LOVE OUR CHILDREN

LEARNING TO LOVE OUR CHILDREN One thing That I KNOW We adults NEED TO LEARN To do better In this world is: To learn TO LOVE OUR CHILDREN After all We USED to be children And maybe IF we Were taught a little better As children Maybe there would be MORE LOVE in the world And NOT as much Hatred and violence Jesus said it BEST, “See that You do not despise One of these LITTLE ONES For I say to you That their ANGELS in heaven ALWAYS look upon The face Of my heavenly FATHER” Matthew 18:10 Yet to put out A couple of statistics: “OVER the past 10 years 20,000 American children Are BELIEVED to have been killed In their own homes By FAMILY MEMBERS” Michael Petit (PRESIDENT of ECM=EVERY CHILD MATTERS”) “1,825 children are abused Or neglected each day” 2,014 CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND-annual statement of America's Report AND yet-we are called To be EXAMPLES Of LOVE-FORGIVENESS-and KINDNESS For our children In today's world Maybe the REASON Children aren't growing up To be model adults Is that we adults Aren't getting it right- OURSELVES We NEED to LEARN to LOVE OUR CHILDREN In a 1970 song”TEACH YOUR CHILDREN” by: Crosby-Stills-Nash and Young Graham Nash wrote: “YOU Who are on the road MUST have a code That we CAN LIVE BY” And I can THINK of no better code Than the one That Jesus himself LIVED BY And tried to TEACH US “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD With ALL your heart And with all your soul And all your mind This is the first And greatest commandment And the second is LIKE it LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR As yourself ALL the law And the prophets Hang on these two commandments” Matthew 22:37-40 And ALWAYS FORGIVE And always be KIND For Jesus was nothing IF he wasn't at least These to things IMAGINE what a world It would be For our children IF we adults LIVED by the ABOVE qualities TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL LEARN TO LOVE YOUR CHILDREN I have no children Of my own But I do Have two godchildren-and four nieces (ONE whose very birthday is today=8-11-15) And I also have SPONSORED A young man from Ecuador For the last ten years And I do Or at least TRY TO LOVE ALL CHILDREN LOVE ALL PEOPLE “CHILDREN Are a heritage From the Lord Offspring a reward From him” Psalm 127:3 Dear LORD=WE pray HELP US To learn to BELIEVE that And really and truly be AN EXAMPLE OF LOVE For our children And live by LEARNING TO LOVE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN Robert P. Wallman 8-10-15