Sunday, 13 July 2008

• My co-worker Rhonda and I were playing with two little girls at work. One of them fell asleep in my lap, and the other – I’ll call her Sara – was playing make-believe with Rhonda and carting around a small doll as her baby. I overheard this conversation between the two of them:

  “This is my husband,” Sara said.

  “Oh! What’s his name?”

  “Santos.”

  “Hi Santos, pleased to meet you,” Rhonda said politely to the imaginary man.

  Sara turned suddenly and her tone was angry. “Santos! I’m going to punch you in the face!”

  Rhonda was genuinely shocked. “Sara! Why would you talk like that?”

  Sara looked at her. “He’s my husband,” She said simply, as if puzzled that Rhonda was questioning her.

  I almost laughed, but the reality of the situation was so saddening to me that I haven’t forgotten it. Children only imitate what they see and hear around them. What are they seeing? What are they hearing? Does our culture or the media place any value on marriage and family, let alone the God-given roles of men and women? Hardly.

  Trying to establish a stable, godly home in a world as dark as this seems so small and insignificant compared to the statistics and the opposition. But so necessary. Sometimes I wonder if I am up to the challenge. Yet God is so much bigger. His Kingdom will win in the end. And maybe we can make our corner of the world a little brighter by living His way.

  But do the kids like Sara even have a chance to know the joy of commitment and true love?

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  Quote of the day: “What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.”

                                      -Andrew Combe

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