Children

Mar 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM
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Children aren't the future.

They are the present.

That is all.

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True on many levels. Physically, spiritually, socially. Interesting.

True true true!!! And I see it this way - Why worry so much about the beginning of life or the end when we have so much time and people to take care of in between? We are all the present.

What brought this on, now?

shush now replied to jaklumen’s comment:
Mar 26, 2008
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Talk over bagels. Someone said, "after all, children are our future", and I thought, "hold on now..."

There's this habit, in many churches I've attended, to lavish attention on kids until they are out of preschool, ignore them until they get married, and then dote on THEIR kids. I don't know, I guess it just got to me today, because we have to live in the now, with what we have now, and these kids aren't just about the future of the church.

They are here, they are now, they are about what they need now. They are the present.