A Road Less Travelled

Children are special. We seem to have lost that in our culture. We warehouse our children until the point we consider them humans, but by that point they don’t actually know us so we have angry teens and disgruntled parents. But children are special and we need to remember that. The Bible talks about children as being blessings from Yaweh. They are spoken of as arrows in the hands of an archer. That doesn’t mean they are blessings when they grow up. It means they are blessings, period. It means that no matter how young they are there is something a child cangive. I know that children are difficult. I know this because I live with five of them and that fact is a leeettle hard to miss. But when you start treating your children like they are special and treating them like they had something to give they will respond. I’ve seen parents who think very highly of their children and treat them like little people. The children then respond by acting more like little people. It’s cool to watch. Theresa was telling us about something that happened on their previous trip. She couldn’t remember which state it happened so she asked Moriah. Moriah said it happened in Missouri and we believed her. If someone was going to know it would be Moriah. I have called Samuel over to climb up something and reach something for me. I’ve asked Isaac to fix things and Arianna has watched Justice for me. Even Noah and Justice has something to offer us in their smiles and their laughter. The conversations I have been having with the older three children have gotten more involved and more interesting the longer I have been here. These children are special and when we treat them like they are special they only get more special to us. Our culture has lost many things and it is suffering because of it. Parents are losing the specialness of their children and they are missing out on so much because of it. Children are special. Your children are special. They are precious gifts from the Father and His gifts will never depreciate.