Living in Harmony…

The unreconciled heart LOVES negativity! Our religious friends spend much of their time dwelling on the need to overcome, to throw off the seed of destruction somehow embedded in the huMan soul. But what if we live a life knowing we won?  Knowing that our Creator loves us, thinks we’re great and can do what HE made us to do,radically changing our  day to day dealing with our fellow huManbeans.  Our kids can be positive, not looking to find differences, just accepting that all kids have kinks and being okay with that. The real difference would be that the grown-ups wouldn’t tear that down while making rules for achieving life. Those that serve the delusions of truth, chances are good they were taught as a young heart that life must be won to be worthy. They are hurt, and living life in fear. We have to be realists, some of the deluded(cheated(?)) are dangerous in their zeal. One more wise than I will deal in the end with these. We can only tend to their fall-out.

So we change the way we live. One person reaching out to another is our only option, building an outward spiral of trust. To quote a sixties phrase,”Each one, teach one.” I serve the  God Who loves us, I talk to HIM and trust Him to do with me as He needs. I know He inspires me to live confident in His love and in my ability to pass this knowing on. It’s a truly glorious life!

Recently I visited Florida, home of love bugs, HEAT, Shamu, and @ very cool little boys. My daughter’s home is a Florida ranch, a pretty place, full of love, life, and electronics. Homer, my son in law, is a techie extraordinaire, his kids totally immersed in computers, electronics and technology. Funny to watch a three year old flipping between pages on a website as easily as he would have turned a page on an archaic book fifty years ago. The vocabulary of the ten year old is astounding, his use of language true to his teacher’s tutelage. BTW, his teacher is his Mom, my kid!

Homeschooling has been the best choice for Ty, an inquisitive, gifted student of science, history and math. We found Early that this young man’s hurdle would be reading and we still struggle with that one. His brain being wired non-traditionally, Anne has had to find ways to teach him without the symbolrecognition of letters. ow he reads certain things but blocks most of the written page is something to behold. Everyday we find a new bend, something he has learned to shape to his purpose.

How is it our faith is strengthened by the weakness found in a 3 year old’s tantrum or the struggle of a ten year old frustrated because a letter re-learned a day earlier has slipped away, again? It’s the path, the way we walk hand in hand with a father that gives us newness each day. We don’t always have the answers but, if we can walk a little further, the One who created us inspires us , yet again, to a new way. We are reminded our ultimate job is to love the little ones around us and the answers will come, and they do. Little ones, whether they be small in years counted or bruises accrued, grow by the fruition of relationship. Confidence grows, love, concern, and caring blossom, and life is lived..