Friday, August 11, 2006
FAMILY TROUBLES
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The lesson was called "No place like home."
I asked the kids if they could be in any family in the world
which one would it be.
Some appreciated the families God had given them;
others wanted to change.
I asked those who wanted to change what they would change if
they could and whom they would switch with.
Some of them looked at me and figured I had the perfect parents
with the perfect childhood, but their parents were too old and
were too strict for today's times.
I asked them how old their father was, they responded with a
middle age number.
I went on to tell them about my family.
There is no family on the earth that I would have rather been
born into, but it wasn't as it appeared to them.
First of all, I told those who complained about the age of their
parents, "My father was sixty when I was born. By the time I
was your age, my father was seventy-five, now how old did you
say your father was?" I explained that I had no memories of my
father with any non-gray hair at all.
Second, I explained to them that I had to walk to school
everyday and back home. These were not the 1920s I was telling
them about, these were the 1970s and 80s.
Third, I explained that my father was a health enthusiast and I
had to eat raw sprouts and drink fresh carrot juice and cod
liver oil everyday.
I went on to tell them about my delivering newspapers before
school, not being able to watch television in the presence of my
father, working in a factory every single summer, never getting
any allowance at all, and having to clean the house with my
brother every night.
Then I asked the question again, "How many of you still would
want to switch over to my family?"
Not a hand went up.
After that class I saw some of the warmest reunions of children
with their parents that I had ever witnessed after class before.
I knew that I still had grown up in one of the easiest
situations on earth, but compared with what they were
complaining about, it made their situations look pretty good.
I also realize now that everything that seemed tough to me
growing up was actually a blessing. They were the tough things
that developed me.
Be thankful for your family if you have one; we often don't
appreciate what we have until it is gone.
PRAYER
"Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit, that I may grow in the knowledge of your great love and truth. Help me to seek you earnestly in prayer and fasting that I may turn away from sin and wilfulness and conform my life more fully to your will. May I always find joy in knowing, loving, and serving you."
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