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Sunday, March 07, 2010
A Thought from Pastor Bryson
March 7, 2010
Bulletin Thought
A Thought from Pastor Bryson,
March is “Family Month” at Mt. Nebo and it is my prayer to share several thoughts through this medium as it relates to the family. Note what James Dobson (Focus On The Family) shared from his writing – Love Must Be Tough:
FAMILY INSTABILITY AFFECTS EVERYONE – especially the children.
…the most vulnerable victims of family instability are the children who are too young to understand what has happened to their parents.
That tragic impact on the next generation was graphically illustrated to me in a recent conversation with a sixth-grade teacher in an upper middle-class California city. She was shocked to see the results of a creative writing task assigned to her students. They ere asked to complete a sentence that began with the words “I wish.” The teacher expected the boys and girls to express wishes for bicycles, dogs, television sets, and trips to Hawaii. Instead, twenty of the thirty children made reference in their responses to their own disintegrating families. A few of their actual sentences were as follows:
“I wish my parents wouldn’t fight and I wish my father would come back.”
“I wish my mother didn’t have a boyfriend.”
“I wish I could get straight A’s so my father would love me.”
“I wish I had one mom and one dad so the kids wouldn’t make fun of me. I have three moms and three dads and they botch up my life.”
“I wish I had an M-1 rifle so I could shoot those who make fun of me.”
As a pastor, husband, father and grandfather – I wish that families would know the love of Jesus Christ and follow the principles found in His Word. I do believe if that were the case, families would be more wholesome and joyful.
O God, bless families everywhere, strengthen and heal them…
3/7/2010 8:40:21 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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