Some days I feel like an utter failure as a mother. It's not enough to educate our children well or to teach them good manners & how to perform basic life chores, if we fail to teach them charity, we have failed completely.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up.
1 Corinthians 13:1-4
This morning, after being buffeted by complaining, bickering, tattling, talking back, and overall unpleasantness from my children, I went back to my bedroom & had a good cry. Then I sat on my bed & thought about how short my temper has been lately, how quick I have been to criticize, and how much I have been raising my voice at my kids. I knew that they were, in fact, good students. They were learning my poor example. So I came out committed to teaching my children the right example!
Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.
Deuteronomy 11:19
-Jen
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