Mommy, We Have No Kings

“Mommy, we have no kings! This is our town and everyone has their own place. We have low taxes on families and we work hard in our own businesses. If our neighbors need help, we help them. But if they’re lazy, we teach them how to work instead of giving it to them for free.”

 

Oh my goodness. I was giggling because they are so cute.

 

Teaching our children, reading them books, and training them with conservative values is a huge responsibility. We wonder if they hear us correctly and will apply it in their lives in someway.

 

After homeschooling over 2 decades, I’m old enough to realize that a person’s fruit ALWAYS comes later. It never is immediate. Just like an apple tree or a tomato plant, we plant the seeds in fertile soil, we tend, we water, we weed, and we carefully stake it up as it grows, praying a windstorm doesn’t uproot all of our efforts.

 

 

In the same way, our young children need to be planted in fertile soil and be tended to daily because the windstorms of life will come. Our prayer as parents is when they become old enough to heed the instructions given, they will be better equipped to withstand the heaviness life can sometimes throw at them.

 

Today, as I watch them create memories with each other, my prayer is that they take the things they’ve learned at home to respond better to the hard things of this life, apply good character when life gets confusing, hide scripture in their hearts, and place God at the center of everything they do and say.

 

And make sure we shape those sandbox conversations. Their little imaginations can run wild!

 

Be encouraged dear mother. Plant your seeds. Do your part. And let the producing of your children’s fruit be done by God.

For He alone is our answer.

Natalie