Last week, the hosts at Family Life Network’s morning show were doing live programming from Kingdom Bound at Darien Lake. As I understand from listening to them, they had a tent set up and they were broadcasting live from the tent, and would often talk to people who stopped by. Mostly people from the crowds, people that were staying at the park for the event. But also, they had a number of the performers and speakers come by and chat.
Pam Stenzel had stopped by one morning. Pam is a speaker and author that promotes sexual abstinence for teens. While the message was a good one, what really struck me was an acrostic for the word FAMILY. She talked about parents not having enough time for their kids, or wanting to do their own things, and leaving the kids to fend for themselves. Her response is simply and boldly that they shouldn’t have had kids… The acrostic is:
Forget
About
Me,
I
Love
You.
Forget about me, I love you. What a wonderful way to think of family. It is a commitment, no one would deny that. But it’s a commitment for life. It’s a commitment to be there for your children no matter what else you would rather do. We sometimes forget that. Sometimes there are other pressures, such as financial pressures, that push it into the work place right away after a child is born. Sometimes, we might lack the maturity to make this commitment. We aren’t willing to let go of our lives to be there for our children. Sometimes, when our children get a little older and we think they can be home alone, we start planning our own lives. And children, often in puberty years, or young teen years, are forced to be in charge long before the maturity is developed.
Tomorrow I will touch on some statistics that I have come across recently. It seems more people are willing to make the commitment. More and more are staying home, realizing the importance of our presence in the lives of our children.
God has made you responsible for the raising of you children. Don’t trust your school system, your day-care center, or your baby-sitters, to assume that responsibility. Make the commitment yourself.
Pam Stenzel had stopped by one morning. Pam is a speaker and author that promotes sexual abstinence for teens. While the message was a good one, what really struck me was an acrostic for the word FAMILY. She talked about parents not having enough time for their kids, or wanting to do their own things, and leaving the kids to fend for themselves. Her response is simply and boldly that they shouldn’t have had kids… The acrostic is:
Forget
About
Me,
I
Love
You.
Forget about me, I love you. What a wonderful way to think of family. It is a commitment, no one would deny that. But it’s a commitment for life. It’s a commitment to be there for your children no matter what else you would rather do. We sometimes forget that. Sometimes there are other pressures, such as financial pressures, that push it into the work place right away after a child is born. Sometimes, we might lack the maturity to make this commitment. We aren’t willing to let go of our lives to be there for our children. Sometimes, when our children get a little older and we think they can be home alone, we start planning our own lives. And children, often in puberty years, or young teen years, are forced to be in charge long before the maturity is developed.
Tomorrow I will touch on some statistics that I have come across recently. It seems more people are willing to make the commitment. More and more are staying home, realizing the importance of our presence in the lives of our children.
God has made you responsible for the raising of you children. Don’t trust your school system, your day-care center, or your baby-sitters, to assume that responsibility. Make the commitment yourself.
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