What are the character traits we parents wish to instill in our children that they may carry into the world they traverse? We think of faith in God, self-confidence, commitment, discipline, doing what is right, - things like that. Here, let's remember also the word "insight", the ability to observe the world around us, and look deeply behind events to understand them.One way we teach insight to our children is by being insightful ourselves. Opportunities for learning happen around us daily. A bad experience between you and your child, events depicted on news programs, incidents at school or in the neighborhood.
The point is this, there is relevance in the statement from scripture, "The truth will set you free." Without truth, right-and-wrong, good-but-better, we and our children, both, would not have "handrails", as it were, with which to navigate ourselves mentally and physically through the complexity of what occurs unexpectedly in our path.
Thank God that all the convolutedness of the world is not too much for God to understand and take care of! Let us take time each day to pause and listen to the wisdom of a quiet voice inside us. That voice directs us to look below and behind what is seen only with looking closely. In addition, may we who are parents teach this ability, this insight, to our sons and daughters whenever possible.
For musical video click on: "'ONE VOICE' by Billy Gilman"
[Written by Jim Hogue, MA, MFTI /
Supervisor: Peter Mosgofian, MA, MFTI ]
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