If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
01840 – Let Trouble be in My Day
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01820 – Hope & Love are Everywhere in Our Lives
The signs are all around us. We can see them springing up like wildflowers after the prairie rain. People who had fallen asleep are waking up. People who had been content to watch are wanting to join. People who never said a word are speaking out. The tipping point of...
01813 – War is Always Evil
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
01806 – How Honest Can Our Children Be with Us?
We teach our children how honest they can be with us based on how we react when they tell us things we don't want to hear.
01755 – Children Need a Laptop
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles--someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals, and knowledge of a hundred previous...
01731 – What is Our Job?
It is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It is our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
01722 – Two Gifts for Our Children
There are two gifts we should give our children: one is roots, and the other is wings.
01712 – Walking Mindfully
Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps. We have to hear the bells of mindfulness that are sounding all across our planet. We have to start...
01711 – Whiteness: Oppressive, Whether Intentional or Not
At my Christian elementary school, we sang, “Jesus loves the little children…red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in his sight.” In alignment with this song, white people often professed, “I don’t even see color,” reassuring me that I would be safe from...
01697 – Spare the Rod?
"Spare the rod, spoil the child." But shepherds don't beat their sheep with the rod. The rod is used to steer the sheep, as a support when the shepherd is tired, and as a weapon to defend the herd from harm. Sheep follow the shepherd because his kindness makes him...