Perspective
This post is just fabulous. Please take the time to read it. PERSPECTIVE
“Has our perspective in America become so skewed that we think piano lessons, soccer games, and college funds are more important than saving a life? I know that some people think our kids are ‘missing out’ on some of the things that ‘normal’ families do. It’s true that our kids are not involved in three sports or music lessons and that we stay home a lot. But they have a FAMILY who loves them. If they didn’t live here with us, they would be in an orphanage. They would belong to NO ONE. Even if they had some opportunities in their home countries for education, who would they come home to at holidays?”
In the post above, she links to another post. I’m posting it below because I wouldn’t want you to miss it either. Also fabulous.
Wanna Know What Breaks My Heart Just As Much As This?
I cannot tell you how often I have had people say to me “I don’t know how you can handle SEVEN kids- I can’t even stand the two I’ve
Our children are our greatest treasures- I promise you God didn’t give them to you and I so that ‘we wouldn’t be able to stand being around them”… got!” And that is what breaks my heart.
We are tricked into thinking that we are good parents when we give them everything-because by giving them things we are proving their worth. (and we forget that worth is not found in things).
We look at our beautiful little cherubs and want to give them the world- and we believe we can.
We think by lavishing them with gifts, signing them up for every lesson from violin to soccer-we are proving how talented they (so in essence WE) are.
We teach them that they are better than everyone else and that they need to look out for #1.
But really- by doing those things, we are stealing from them.
