WOULD YOU . . . .?

By Sue Fuller (shared at the September MOPS meeting)

WOULD YOU take more time to play with your child if you were convinced that fairness, sharing, honesty, and pure joy are better caught than taught?

WOULD YOU prepare meals with more purpose and be more committed to family dinnertime if you realized you were exampling servant hood, meaningful conversation, manners, and a heart of gratitude.

WOULD YOU respond with kinder words to your husband if you knew your daughter would say those exact words to her husband some day?

WOULD YOU choose your closest friendships more carefully if you were convinced those relationships would make a forever impact on your child by reinforcing the character qualities you have been teaching them?

WOULD YOU be more deliberate with worship attendance and daily communion with God if you were absolutely convinced that eternity started now and what Jesus said really could make a difference in your daily life?

WOULD YOU treat your own parents with more tenderness and honor knowing that someday you will be treated that same way by your children?

WOULD YOU change anything about your parenting if you knew your child was to become—
--a missionary to a lost nation to impact thousands with the gospel
--a doctor who ministered with skill to heal bodies and truth to heal hearts
--a teacher who embodied Christ’s love to the unlovable

WOULD YOU change anything about your parenting if you knew your son
or daughter would parent your grandchild JUST LIKE YOU?