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




Ps 12-18 and 19-2018