Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this day morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day today! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Parental Guidance…”
By a show of virtual hands raised, what is “Parental Guidance?” Why is it so important nowadays especially? Well I’m glad you asked, because it appears to be a belief or act that is losing more and more significance in our society every day. I have told you on more occasions than one, in my “Thought For Today’s,” the way I was raised up…….hard, very HARD! My mother “Momma G,” had a VERY short fuse when it came to behavior in her children, she had no tolerance for bad or misbehaving children in any aspect whatsoever! She whipped me and my siblings butts everytime we acted up or got out of line, not just every once in a while either, but pretty much everytime. She was a firm believer in corporal punishment as they call it nowadays. So with this train of thought, or line of thinking, it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about “Parental Guidance.” And AMEN goes right here! She instilled some “act rite” in me that started at a very young age, as well as with my siblings at every opportunity we gave her, which in my case was too many to count. She had some very simple rules #1. You WILL act right in public. #2. You WILL keep a clean house LOL! #3. You WILL do what she tells you to do the FIRST time she tells you to do it! #4. Family comes first, nomatter what! #5. Never start a fight with anyone, but if someone starts one with you, FINISH IT! LOL!! #6. When you get “too grown” to mind her nomatter what your age is/was, it’s time for you to leave the nest. She had a motto that went “I brought you into this world and I will most definitely take you out of it too if you try me! And guess what, WE BELIEVED SHE WOULD TOO! LOL!!! #7. When she tells you that you can’t do something or not to do something you were doing, questioning her about it was grounds for either a face peeling slapping, or a butt whuppin whichever she was in the mood for at that moment in time! Last but not least, #8. If ANYONE, and I do mean ANYONE, of adult age ever put their hands on or even threatened to put their hands on one of her children, that person would find out exactly how it feels when a mamma bear feels her cubs safety has been compromised or threatened!!! Then, after I moved in with my grandparents at the age of twelve, after falling in love with the farm/ranch style of living, I was taught even more life lessons, as well as how to work…..and I mean REAL HARD WORK. We had a jokative saying about my grandfather Lee Andrew “Bo” Brown, that we borrowed from the old United Negro College Fund commercials, “Boy, once you step foot on the Bodee Plantation, you bess set yo mind to werkin hawd, cus that is exactly what he will have you doing!!!” LOL!! Both Momma G and my grandparents also taught me about serving God, another act that started at a very early age. And another act that was NOT optional! The older generation firmly believes in putting God at the Head (not the center, the end, or anywhere else, but the HEAD) of their lives, would ensure that their lives although tiring, stressful, broken, discouraging, and full of chaos at times, were still worth living. They believed that nomatter how bad their lives could be at any particular given time, if they had a little (actually A LOT) of Jesus Christ at the helm, they could endure anything, nomatter how grim, dark, or hopeless their lives seemed at any given time….And AMEN goes right here!!
So what happened? Where did that belief go? As I look around in the world today, I see children who have no respect, no morals, no purpose in life except for to wreak havoc and chaos, are so easily influenced by any and everything. I see parents who either doesn’t have a clue what it means to be a real parent, or they just don’t care about putting forth the effort to be one. I also see the Parents who are trying to do it the right way being punished, and not supported in their efforts, even by those closest to them. There are too many wanna be parents out there in the world who only want the title of being a parent but not the hard work, sleepless nights, frustrations, and disappointments that come with trying to do it the right way. And as I said, if you look around, you can see the after effects of that lack of knowledge, or caring that so many unfit parents have. There are so many single parents out there in the world, especially women, but also now you are starting to see more and more men taking on that responsibility, when that was almost never the case in years past. A lot of women have given up on the dream of getting or being married before having children, but now, viewing it as their ticket to financial security. Trying to target and trap a professional athlete or musical or Hollywood stars. Then you have men fathering babies out of wedlock, have taken on the mentality that they have no responsibility in helping raise the children they help create, or to teach them about Parental Love, Respect for others, good Morals, that you go to school to learn and prepare themselves for life, An honest trade they can provide a good life for themselves and their future family, and last but not least, keeping the cycle going of teaching them about the importance of being Baptized serving Jesus Christ, so that they’ll teach their future children about Jesus Christ too. It is just that, a cycle IF the newer generations were ever taught, exposed to, or had it drilled in their heads by the older generations. One thing I have seen with my own two eyes on so many occasions in my life, is that when either a father neglects spending quality time with his daughters, they will seek out the attention of male approval from men, and often times, the wrong men. Resulting in them being emotionally damaged, used and abused. And if that father neglects spending quality time with his son(s), that son will more times than not, end up on the wrong side of the law, and a product of causing chaos and destruction. Wandering around in this dangerous world without any sense of direction or morals, and or Spiritual conviction. Yes, a “good” mother can make up for “some” of this and prevent “some” of this from happening, but not all. God’s Divine plan was designed for there to be a Husband, Wife, and Children working as ONE unit called a “FAMILY”. They would work in cohesion together, and multiply in their numbers, keeping the cycle going of practicing Christianity everyday, and the elders (parents) to teach it to their children. Those children would in turn teach it to their children when they became adults, married, and then parents…..not the current vicious cycle taking place today…
So let me ask you a question, after reading my assessment above of the current status of the world from a “Parental Guidance” standpoint, are you Helping or Hindering progress trying to be made? If you are a parent (Single or Married), are you raising your children with a good solid Christianity based foundation first and foremost, and with good morals, respect for you at their parent, but also others, that they can achieve their dreams, but there isn’t a quick track to doing so, because HARD work is the only way to achieve them, and last but not least, when your child does stray behavior wise, are you providing them the “ack rite” correction that they are in desperate need of? Think about this, one of the top two problems that children of this day and age (School aged especially) face is #1. Peer Pressure. and #2. Bullying. Now watch this, BOTH of those serious problems are direct results of what they see or don’t get at home. If a child is bullying another child, it is because somewhere along the line the child doing the bullying was bullied or made fun of, or abused by someone and they are just trying to take their frustrations out on someone else, usually a weaker person, because a stronger person took their frustrations out on them. If your child is experiencing peer pressure, which I can tell you, most if not all kids do on some level everyday in their lives, you better hope and pray you’ve discussed with them the dangers of giving in to peer pressure! How else can they be prepared to successfully deal with it and make the right choices?? THEY CAN’T! They have to be taught that it is NOT cool to follow the crowd when you know what the “crowd” is doing is wrong! You have to instill in them an independent personality that says, “I don’t have to follow the crowd to be considered cool, I’m okay with being called a square and or not cool, because I didn’t give in and do what they tried to pressure me into doing.” Believe me, those two phrases cause more school aged kids (GOOD kids normally) to cower down and give in to that peer pressure, and do things they know isn’t right, or that their parents wouldn’t agree with. But they do it anyways to fit in, and if they get away with whatever they did, then they will start to blurry the lines of what’s right and what’s wrong on everything else in life. Only a true dedicated parent, with a strong Christian foundation, and a HIGH Parental Guidance Pride, can prevent or reverse this trend happening all over the world today. Here’s the key, GET TO KNOW YOUR CHILDREN ON A PERSONAL BASIS!!! Talk to them, bond with them, earn (notice I said EARN) their trust so that they will feel comfortable telling you ANYTHING going on with them. How many parents of children who experienced tragedies of some sort in their lives, happened and the parents had no clue there was anything wrong going on, until it was too late???? Your children want to confide in you “IF” you care to listen and convince them that you really do care on a deeper level than just being their parents, or just being nosey and invading their privacy. Now notice, I didn’t say become their friend! Too many so-called “parents” nowadays try to be their children’s friends, and believe me when I say the kids know the difference! I said get to know them on a deeper level, their likes, dislikes, their fears, their dreams, their goals, who or what they want to become, etc…..Then and only THEN will you open “Pandora’s Box” so to speak, to a whole new world of trust and understanding with them that will result in them having immeasurable trust to tell you any and everything! Can I leave you with a few questions today????
“How well do you know, and I mean “REALLY” know your children? And are you making it a point to HELP not hinder the forward progress of breaking the current vicious cycle of today’s youth? Is your good Parental Pride level in raising your children so high that you won’t accept any excuses for failure? Lastly, are you willing to seek good Godly counsel from people you know and trust, if you don’t know how to raise a child properly? Or are you one of those parents who knowing you don’t know all the answers of raising children the right way, are too proud, too lazy, or just plain too trifflin to find guidance yourself from those that do?”
Can I get a Amen????
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross?”
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