No matter where life takes us it is clear that the Lord craves to go with us. Each life we walk past is experiencing a day we can't understand fully. When you are cut off on the road and an irritation wells within you, did that person just learn of horrible news. Have they just experienced a bombardment of events making your presence on the road with him invisible? We can't walk in everyone's shoes, but we can live a life that reflects the mercy and forgiveness we have all been blessed with through Christ. Be slow to anger, give and given mercy, forgive, live in peace, fret not. The Word of God is filled with a call to love and care for even those that are hard to care for.
How do we help children understand what is hard for many adults to grasp? By living out our faith with reality. Share the challenges you experience with loving the unlovable. Ask for forgiveness in front of your children. Be with them as you ask the Lord to give you a heart that can love those that are hurtful. Do the same for them as they battle with their emotions and encounter tough people. This is a life journey. You will not raise a perfect loving child. But if you show them humility and a need to lay all at the feet of God, you give them the tools to build with.
God is faithful. All we can do is live out our humanness in a real way. Don't try to be superman or superwoman. Share what is appropriate and let them know that you need God just as they do. Your journey will be the richer for it. (as a side note: Don't share really serious issues with children to young to process them. Children count on you for their security. Bring things down to an appropriate level. )
May God bless you as you live in truth before your children and share ---His "commandments that He gives you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deut 6:6-9
Brenda
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