Thursday, June 17, 2010

humpty does not need dumpty! but how will he be put back together again

Stop! Red Rover! Red Rover!, send the ball and Sandy right over. the riddles we learn and recite from school year- to summers end ;as children it is our passage from youth to teenager and simply put part of the southern life style in raising your children ; these are life stories, we just stop saying them and live them as we get older. But yet we remember them and reminence with fond memories, when you walk through Books A Million.

Jack fell down! Jill came to his rescue!
the wheels on the bus go round and round!
the three little pigs!
goldie locks etc

and then there is Humpty Dumpty!!

Gee I just loved that short rhyme it was my favorite and today I can't recall it. Not a good sign! LOL---.... Why......-----.Just older and it is not like riding a bike, I can't pull out the training wheels to help me. I know thank you for good search .com

As a parent whom got some of it right and yet alot of it wrong on this journey, I am questioning
how simple it would be to tell our children a riddle or childhood rhyme and relate this to Christ;securing it in their mind for life. Like me @ age 43 I have vidid memories of me and my
freinds playing duck -duck- goose- (the chase was on)with one touch. I want others to get that one touch that will give them the adrenaline to do the chase for Christ, it must start as a a child.

How easy it is to play Jack and Jill in this role of life: the one we love falls and we come to their rescue. When they are in need we can so easily become their enabler, hence the wheels on the bus go round and round (we chase the dream for them). Just remember the way we portray our role in their life will teach them how the story will end. They do not need to chase the destination it is always being chased for them. Lay it at the alter, leave it their. You are not the fixer or the resoulution, only the eyes and ears for God to work through your heart on this earthly. destination.

I think of the 3 bears and Goldie Locks and flashes in my mind give me pictures and words with a tainted painful visions. I reflect upon broken familys, divorce, all knowing that the drug dealer tries it, then sells it, and then settles to it is his way of life, his rescue, his perfect poriage pudding, his perfect baby bear, where he/she finds the comfort. Likewise, they are also like the 3 little pigs building their house of straw,mud, and they think the brick will keep the wolf away. We must let them know the brick(the drug) only keeps Christ away and they are building a home for the wolf to reside in and eventually even the brick will crumble.

Lastly, as a parent you will have those times of feeling like your children have become humpty sitting onthe wall or dumpty fallen from the wall. As a mom or dad through Christ we will be held accountable before the master one day and he gives us the king; his son, and he gives us his horses; the word, how we use them will put all things back together again ,no wall will be the obstacle. No matter if the are sitting upon it or leaning upon it; you are not the rescuer. We are commander to be the relayer!

the words of God directs us raise them in the path and they will come back.

I want the riddles we tell our children to be of signifcant impact and not only child's play.

the next time you think of your own childhood and the rhymes, know things will be the same in the books as we get older.

their is always some one falling away, trying for the bigger and better ,thinking they have kept the wolf away. Simply realize in the end I want to stand before my King knowing "I tell them relevant things in life matter and fiction is not in his words.

Live out loud the rhymes/riddlesor the stories that build a beautiful mind!!! a creative spirit!!!!! and that will bring them back to the path of truth.

I am a better mom and all is to his glory.

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