I love kids. My daughter provides just the sunshine I need on days when I just feel that dark thunderhead cloud oppressively reminding me of how much life can suck.
Having children reminds us of what's really important in life. As adults we get so caught up in our careers and ambitions and the latest trends and such. In the end, it's all such pap, really.
Love, laughter, companionship and family (or the lack thereof)...those are the things that last. Those are the things that for better or worse, make us who we are.
When it comes to children, they represent who we once were, but many of us somehow lost somewhere along the way.
I can't tell you the kind of joy it brings when my daughter laughs or when she makes me something out of paper and glue, markers and tape. Or how she will bring home a rock she found in the school yard an give it to me saying that she thought I'd like it because it looked like it might be a dinosaur fossil.
They have such wonder and absorb so much of life that we just don't anymore.
When you have kids, if you are a good parent, I think your child helps bring some of that back into your life.
And as a parent, you get a chance to help your child in the way that perhaps your parents did not help you, using your childhood as a guide to help them make good choices based on the knowledge you give them. And that benefits society too.
Besides, as Christians, God tells us to be fruitful and multiply. After all, we are His kids, and one could ask, why does He want us?
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Date: 2006-03-16 05:16 pm (UTC)Having children reminds us of what's really important in life. As adults we get so caught up in our careers and ambitions and the latest trends and such. In the end, it's all such pap, really.
Love, laughter, companionship and family (or the lack thereof)...those are the things that last. Those are the things that for better or worse, make us who we are.
When it comes to children, they represent who we once were, but many of us somehow lost somewhere along the way.
I can't tell you the kind of joy it brings when my daughter laughs or when she makes me something out of paper and glue, markers and tape. Or how she will bring home a rock she found in the school yard an give it to me saying that she thought I'd like it because it looked like it might be a dinosaur fossil.
They have such wonder and absorb so much of life that we just don't anymore.
When you have kids, if you are a good parent, I think your child helps bring some of that back into your life.
And as a parent, you get a chance to help your child in the way that perhaps your parents did not help you, using your childhood as a guide to help them make good choices based on the knowledge you give them. And that benefits society too.
Besides, as Christians, God tells us to be fruitful and multiply. After all, we are His kids, and one could ask, why does He want us?