{"id":184,"date":"2009-07-17T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2009-07-20T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:47:52","slug":"july-17-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/july-17-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Joys of Childhood: July 17, Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke 18: 15-17<\/strong><\/p>\n

People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them, and when the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.\u00a0 Jesus, however, called the children to himself and said, “Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.\u00a0 Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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When you think back on your childhood what are your most treasured memories?\u00a0 Was it kick the can and hide and seek in the backyard with the neighborhood kids?\u00a0 Was it swimming in a backyard pool in the hot summertime?\u00a0 Was it sitting on your Mom or Dad’s lap and listening to Dr. Seuss books?\u00a0 Think for a minute about your favorite memory.\u00a0\u00a0I bet it was a time when you felt free and enjoyed having no responsibilities other than to play with others and to have as much good wholesome fun as possible.\u00a0 Don’t we all love to visit that little corner of our minds sometimes, it is so freeing.\u00a0 But now we are adults and have house payments, jobs, bills and way too many responsibilities in our lives!<\/p>\n

What do you want your child to remember about his\/her childhood?\u00a0 I want mine to have the same freeing feeling when they look back.\u00a0 Well what I see around me all too often is parents, I am guilty as well, expecting their children to be short adults.\u00a0 Once I saw a mom say to a child in a zoo after that child jumped in a rain puddle, wearing tennis shoes (not dress shoes),\u00a0 “Why on Earth did you do that?”\u00a0 My answer was because he is a kid.\u00a0 I think we forget so often that our children are children.\u00a0 They are suppose to have fun and love every silly little thing, jumping in puddles, yelling out loud, swinging too high on swings, skipping instead of walking everywhere they go.\u00a0 Yes there is a time and place for everything but have we as parents limited that time and place to a very small place and a very short window of playtime?\u00a0 Sometimes we tell them don’t do that, why would you do that and they answer I don’t know.\u00a0 Well it’s because they are still children.\u00a0 Even when children are 12 years old they are still children.\u00a0 Their reactions and actions are that of a child.\u00a0 I know it would be more convenient for us if they acted the way we want them to but do we really want them to have to be adults before they need to.\u00a0 When they turn 18 they have the rest of their lives to be adults, and let’s think about how fun that is all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So today when your child does something, well childish think to yourself is it hurting anyone else or are they just having pure innocent child like fun.\u00a0 Think to yourself could this be a memory they are making and instead of telling them to be a little quieter and less bouncy let them have their fun and remember when you did the same things.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jesus says in the quote above\u00a0 “anyone who does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it”, we need to find that innocence in ourselves and let our children experience it as much as they can.\u00a0 So today let your child jump in the rain puddles left from last night’s rain, let him\/her chase his\/her brother around the backyard yelling and playing as hard as they can.\u00a0 We always want to give our children what they need: vegetables, discpline, love well they also need to be a child, today give them the joy of just being a child.<\/p>\n

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