To build a family is to change a generation

What does that mean exactly? Have you ever watched some one build a house? The more time, detail and love the builder puts into the home, the more it can with stand. When he just hastily slops some walls up, slaps some shingles on, the more likely it is going to fall apart.

The more time, detail and love you put into a family the longer it will stand and change the way your children view family and life.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Where does it go?

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The time that is?  (this was my journal entry for the Contemporary Challenge)
To my dear sweet Contemporaries,
Sorry I have been lacking in the Challenges for the month but it is a time issue.  You know finding the time to do all you want to do. So this challenge is for March and April, do find time for all you have to do?  Whether you work away from home or you are at home all day, do you find time and energy and apply it to the ones you love.  Or are you like me, who is home all day, there for around the ones I love, but find myself saying not now.  "Mommy will you play with me?" "Mommy, can you read me a story?" "Mommy hold me."  Words I hear all day long but sadly rarely act upon, because allas I am busy.  Busy with what?  Chores, life, blogging, the list is long but it is poor.  Because the stuff will be there when I am done playing with my monkeys.  The stuff will be around as long as I am around.  My sweet children, I have eighteen maybe nineteen years with them, and they will be gone.  So my challenge to you and myself is this.  Stop, what we are doing you know the stuff and give the love our loved ones need.  Including our husbands.  Our homes will be okay for those few fleeting minutes, our world will not be upset.  But our loved ones in those minutes we impact them for the rest of their lives.
Basically we all have choices, what will you choose?  What will I choose?  We are give children and husbands for but a vapor.  How will we treat and love those for that minute?  Are they given to us to serve us, to please us, to make us happy or is it the other way around?  I promise they can never fill the first, they can improve the life we have but they can never be enough. How can we teach them what is important if we do not stop to show them they are important.  That life is short and sweet, that we are truly thankful the blessing of their life. Life is not all about us or them it is about serving God and teaching them the same.  We need to love them, take time with them.  It doesn't mean video games or movies it means, games, hugs, kisses and loves.
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