Ponder What You Can Sacrifice for Your Kids
Who has time to ponder? No one. No one, today, has time to ponder. Well that is not entirely true. It is true that we pack more into a day than ever before in history, but the reality is that we do still have time. I often pitch the complaint to my husband that I just don’t have the time to do something. My husband always swats it right back with “Everyone has time and so do you. You are just not making this a priority for your time.” Ouch. Point being we have time to ponder, we just use that time for other things. Pondering is not a priority. Pondering takes sacrifice–the sacrifice of time, sometimes lots of time. Isn’t that what we want to do for our children – to deeply ponder what they need in life? How would our children benefit if we made the time to really think about their character, their behavior, their struggles, strengths and weaknesses? What if we purposed to dwell on things that deep down caused us to wonder from time to time? Could it help turn a child from destructive behavior? Could it even save a life? We used to …
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