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/Scriptures: 1 John 3:1-10, Matthew 18:2-7/
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/Children possess an uncanny ability to cut to the core of the issue, to expose life to the bone, and strip away the barnacles that cling to the hull of our too sophisticated pseudo-civilization.
One reason for this, I believe, is that children have not mastered our fine art of deception that we call "finesse."
Another is that they are so "lately come from God" that faith and trust are second nature to them.
They have not acquired the obstructions to faith that come with education; they possess instead unrefined wisdom, a gift from God. /
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/Gloria Gaither /
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KIDS' LITTLE INSTRUCTIONS ON LIFE
Never trust a dog to watch your food.
Patrick, Age 10
When you want something expensive, ask your grandparents.
Matthew, Age 12
Never smart off to a teacher whose eyes and ears are twitching.
Andrew, Age 9
Wear a hat when feeding seagulls.
Rocky, Age 9
When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?"
don't answer him.
Heather, Age 16
Never tell your mom her diet's not working.
Michael, Age 14
Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.
Joel, Age 12
Never try to baptize a cat.
Laura, Age 13
Never spit when on a roller coaster.
Scott, Age 11
Beware of cafeteria food when it looks like it's moving.
Rob, Age 10
Never tell your little brother that you're not going to do what your mom told you to do.
Hank, Age 12
Remember you're never too old to hold your father's hand.
Molly, Age 11
Listen to your brain.
It has lots of information.
Chelsey, Age 7
Stay away from prunes.
Randy, Age 9
Never dare your little brother to paint the family car
Phillip, Age 13
Forget the cake, go for the icing.
Cynthia, Age 8
Remember the two places you are always welcome - church and grandma's house.
Joanne, Age 11
For adults there is a melancholy element in this joyous time of the year.
Most likely it is a stirring of childhood emotions and memories that cause us to desire to recapture what has been misplaced over the years.
q It is a child’s favorite time of the year.
q We have all been children.
q We have all been sidetracked by life.
The Christian faith is a kid thing as well.
Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
There are some steps that we perhaps need to retake before we will ever fully experience the Christmas season and the reality of an everyday transformational relationship with God.
Let’s look at some Kid Kharacteristics that we could learn from.
q They forgive easier and forget quickly.
There are at least two things that I don’t want my children to ever be able to say about me.
I don’t want them to say that I never told them that I loved them and I don’t want them to say that I never said, “I’m sorry.”
I have said both of those things to them and try to do it often.
Many times after I am short with my children or when I pull rank because they have questioned something that irritates me because I don’t have a good answer, I go back and apologize.
So easily they say, “It’s okay when it’s far from okay.
I think that people who forgive easily and carry on, treating the offender no differently are a much greater source of conviction than the person who mopes and pouts and insists on an apology.
I operate under the general premise that no one owes me an apology regardless of the circumstances.
My goal is to forgive people whether they want to be forgiven or not.
I have heard people say that you can’t forgive a person unless they want to be forgiven.
When Jesus dies for all of us, he said to those who took his life and to all of us today, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
q They have soft tender hearts of compassion.
No one is moved for others quite like children.
They feel the pain of others more deeply than we do as adults.
A man fell into a pit and couldn't get himself out.
A SUBJECTIVE person came along and said:
"I FEEL for you, down there."
An OBJECTIVE person came along and said:
"It's logical that someone would fall, down there."
A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST came along:
"You only THINK that you are in a pit."
A PHARISEE said:
"Only BAD people fall into a pit."
A MATHEMATICIAN
calculated HOW he fell into the pit.
A NEWS REPORTER
wanted the exclusive story on his pit.
A FUNDAMENTALIST said:
"You DESERVE your pit."
CONFUCIUS said;
"If you would have listened to me, you would not be in that pit."
BUDDHA said:
"Your pit is only a state of mind."
A REALIST said:
"That's a PIT."
A SCIENTIST
calculated the pressure necessary (lbs.~/sq.in.) to get him out of the pit.
A GEOLOGIST
told him to appreciate the rock strata in the pit.
AN EVOLUTIONIST said:
"You are a rejected mutant destined to be removed from the evolutionary cycle."
In other words, he is going to DIE in the pit, so that he cannot produce any "pit-falling offspring."
The COUNTY INSPECTOR asked
if he had a permit to dig a pit.
A PROFESSOR gave him a lecture on:
"The Elementary Principles of the Pit."
An EVASIVE person
came along and avoided the subject of his pit altogether
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