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God Made Moms To Teach Their Children...With Age Comes Independence

Children are a blessing from God. The awesomeness of raising them and seeing them grow into men and women of valour and accomplishing whatever dream they may have is an even greater blessing. Independence in the past as always been looked upon as a great achievement, sort of a rite of passage for many. So what has changed? The scripture in Proverbs 22:6 reads "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it". The scripture Genesis 2:24 reads "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.". These two scriptures scream independence to me. They remind me that children are meant to grow up and become independent. So why are so many parents holding on to their children, especially the ones who are considered adults by age? Why are there so many Christian parents with adult age children that are still dependent upon them? Let's do our children a favor and teach them that independence should come with age because mommy and daddy won't always be here but God and His favor will.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~Delphine

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God Made Moms To Teach Their Children...The True Meaning of the Christmas Tradition

“The Christmas Tradition” by Myles Monroe

From the earliest records of human existence, we have captured our experience in a very powerful medium called tradition. You have heard the terms cultural tradition, oral tradition, and even ethnic traditions. Tradition exists in every culture, every nation, and every generation. A generation is not valid without tradition. In many cases, traditions have been the sole provider of our sense of history and identity. They also give a sense of self-awareness. You really become aware of your identity when you look at what your culture and history were. Also, tradition furnishes us with a sense of perspective that is necessary for a healthy self-concept. In its pure state, tradition is good and necessary. However, people can have negative thoughts towards it.


What is tradition? It comes from the word ‘trade.’ Tradition refers to the trading of a national, personal, or cultural experience that is considered worthy of transferring to the next generation. In other words, tradition is a product of reality and the truth of a person, culture, or nation that is deemed worthy and valuable for preservation. All traditions find their roots in fact, truth, and reality.

If you understand the purpose of tradition, then you would know what a tradition should not be. The goal of tradition is to preserve, protect, and to deliver experience and established truth from one generation to the next. Therefore, tradition is only valid when it delivers the original truth. I would like to suggest that tradition could become the burial ground of truth. The danger of tradition is when it takes the place of the truth that it was supposed to deliver.

One of the biggest traditions on this planet is Christmas. Everyone celebrates something around this time of year. Even nations at war lay down their weapons temporarily. However, the present Christmas tradition is not effective in delivering the message, which it is supposed to convey. What we have done is that we have removed the tradition of Christmas from its original truth. Is Christmas delivering the message that it was supposed to preserve?

Christmas has become confusing because we do not know where faith ends and fantasy begins. Jesus is competing with Santa and the angels with the elves. We mix religion with revelry. Christmas has become a trade. Unfortunately, everything is traded except Jesus. The tradition is not trading the right merchandise. Christmas was intended to be a tradition that contained the truth of trading the good news about the Savior. However, many have embraced the tradition of Christmas without embracing Christ. We need to rediscover the original purpose of Christmas.


Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~ Delphine

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children…To Be True To Who They Are

We all have the tendency to become who others feel we should be and slowly the real person is pushed to the far back. Let’s teach our children to be true to who they really are and we as parents try to recognize and nurture the person God created them to be. In all ages, we get caught up into fitting into particular groups that all the uniqueness of an individual becomes dormant and then when it does appear everyone is like what’s going on with you. Do Not stifle yourself or your children by forcing them to fit into society’s box because the person you are stifling could very well be what society needs or is missing.

Be blessed and encouraged, it’s your choice.~Delphine

Genesis 1:27 -- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them

One For the Kids

Queen Marie Rousseau is intelligent and capable. She is also bossy and selfish. Spoiled from birth by her father and three older brothers (and somewhat less by her mother) and homeschooled until she was in third grade, Queen has no idea how to relate to her fifth-grade classmates. She doesn't seem able to keep her mouth shut and often treats them with scorn. When a new boy, Leroy, appears in class—smelly, ill-dressed, and claiming he is from Africa—Queen is sure he is lying and becomes determined to prove it. Following him, she discovers that he is running errands for a neighbor, an actor who has developed agoraphobia. Queen bullies Leroy into telling her about Cornelius and tries to talk her way into his apartment. Her high-and-mighty attitude doesn't work with the man—he insists that she solve a complicated riddle and act decently before he will speak with her. So begins Queen's slow and bumpy realization that being pleasant will smooth her relationships with others. She eventually gains entrance into Cornelius's apartment and discovers all the memorabilia he has collected over a lifetime of world travel. And she finds a real friend in Leroy. Flake has created a character who is difficult and unlikable but at the same time sympathetic. Everything is wrapped up a little too quickly, but that will not deter readers from rooting for the child to change her attitude and find her place in the world.

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