My Journey to Joy
Proverbs 22:6 says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." I always just took this for what I'd been led to believe: that it meant that when we raise our kids up to believe in God they will always believe in God. Recently though, I've had what I can only explain as a "God-caused eye-opening" with this verse. It does mean that, in part, but I think it's much bigger than that. It's a promise, but it's a warning too. In whatever ways we raise our kids, they will not depart from it. So, then I began thinking about all the things we teach our kids. Not necessarily all the things we verbally teach them, but the things our actions teach them. Interesting to know, 80% of our learning comes through what we observe. So, we can surmise that 80% of what our children learn is from our actions, leaving only 20% through our words. Our actions are so much more important than our words. Alright, so...