Home Again

We are in the incredibly fortunate position to have our children currently at home with us. Now I think I need to clarify, our children are 27years old and 34 years old. So we not only have our children living with us but we also have our 4 year old grand son living with in our home as well. My husband is a busy person and it takes very little to guess that our home is often likened to a railway staion noise, people and everything else!

Home is a vital place in a family, it is a place where masks can be left at the door and pure joy can emunate from every pore of your being or dispair can drape itself like a wet heavy blanket around your shouldres. It is a place of lively communication and often a home can be filled with confidences. It is real vibrant and alive.

Our scripture today is:

Deuteronomy 6:7a You shall teach them diligently to your sons.

As parents we have enormous responsibilities to teach our children properly. The spiritual education of a child rests at the parents feet. This would be taught through being a Godly example as well as teaching our children the value of The Word of God.

E.M. Bounds wrote this:

CHARACTER AND CONDUCT
Conduct is what we do;
Chracter is what we are.
Conduct is the outward life; character is theis the life unseen,
Hidden within, yet evidenced by that which is seen.
Conduct is external, seen from without;character is internal operating within....
Character is the state of the heart, conduct is its outward expression.
Character is the root of the tree, conduct, the fruit it bears.

I read somewhere that it takes creative parenting to teach our children Christian values and responsibilities. We all have the same amount of time, 24 hours a day.

Ann Launders (some of you may remember her column) printed these house rules from a lady in california:_

If you sleep on it-
Make it up.
If you wear it-
Hang it up.
If you drop it-
Pick it up.
If you eat out of it -
Put it in the sink (in my house I add wash it up!)
If you spill it-
Wipe it up.
If you empty it-
Fill it up.
If it rings-
Answer it.
If it howls-
Feed it.
If it cries-
LOVE IT!

Living together is often difficult and certainly not easier when you are all adults...however it can be pure joy, and most of the time it is. We have pow - wow meeting every now and again to facilitate honest dialogue with each other...what do you do in your home?

1 Cor.13 is our measuring stick always.

Let me end with something from John Henry Jowett:-
The Bible doesn't say very much about homes; it says a GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MAKE THEM. It speaks about love and joy and peace and rest. If we get a house and put these things into it, we shall have secured a home.

Remember Jesus and I love you

Sharmaine