Our Children's Hearts

The way we need to have our children grow up is still pressing hard on my heart and soul.

How do we teach our children to love and respect God, themselves and others? How do I make their little hearts and souls understand the importance of kindness; to fully understand and have conviction with the important things. To show others kindness, to have a servants heart, to be loving, kind and respectful, despite growing up in today’s times.

It all starts with us as parents. If we ourselves don’t have those convictions, our efforts are futile. We will not be able to teach them to our children. We must lead by example and ask our children to follow. Follow not only us but those examples set forth by God and His son.

The change starts here with us as parents, as husband and wife, as children of God.

Trying to simply explain your heart to someone is inadequate; words cannot speak louder than your day to day actions.

You cannot kill someone with kindness. You can’t respect someone too much.

In regards to respect, I feel myself called to point out something I have noticed these last few days.

We attended the hometown festival here. The amount of young girls and women who were showing way too much skin was overwhelming.

I don’t want my daughters to grow up thinking its “sexy” to have your breasts falling out the top of your shirt, your belly showing between your pants/shirt, to have pants skin tight and/or have shorts/skirts so short that you can see…well…you know. I want my daughters to have respect for themselves, for their body and soul, I want people to see their personalities and not “what they have to offer”.

I don’t want my son to think that it’s ok for women to dress like that, to play on their hormonal desires rather than their souls desires. I want my son to have respect for women, for their convictions, personality and their souls. I don’t want my son to dress with his pants below his bottom, showing underwear, where he has to have one hand on his pants to keep them from falling off at any given moment.

Who is going to protect their purity if not for us as parents?

Take the stand.