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  • Don - 1 year ago
    I will soon be 89 years old. I love Proverbs 22:6 in the good old KJV. When I was a child in the first grade, I attended a country school where they provided a house on the school grounds for the principal and his family. At my school, the principal and his wife had a toddler baby daughter. Most country families owned a slop bucket containing food scraps, liquid and solid, to feed their hogs. It was always kept on the kitchen floor next to the back door. One day that little innocent toddler fell headfirst into the slop bucket and drowned. What I witnessed that day as a first grader, burn-branded my memory for a lifetime. I saw that desperate father out in the front yard holding his precious baby daughter by the feet, swinging her round and round and round, frantically trying to sling the slop out of her little lungs. But it was too late. The slop bucket claimed their most prized possession. When my wife and I married and had our two daughters, we decided to be very careful about their relationship to the "slop bucket." Today it goes under several disguises, television being the major one. Following through, our two daughters faithfully sacrificed a third of their own lives to home school their children away from society's slop buckets. Their full reward for that sacrifice is yet to be fully realized. Far too many of today's offspring have missed what it means to a mother to have her children, for no occasion at all, to hug her, look her in the eye, and sincerely thank her for all she did for them, and how much they love her. I recently read that some scientists believe some physical vestiges of the child she birthed remain embedded within her the rest of her life, and affects her emotionally with the child. Meaning, of course, that a mother who aborts her child cannot abort the emptiness left within her. Wise men, who haven't a clue in these matters, will gather their wives in their arms and just hold them---even if for nothing else than no reason at all.



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