If you could choose today

What kind of life are you building?

Ask yourself what is really important to you and then have the wisdom and courage to build your life around your answer.

If you could choose today…

Would you choose for your child to be created thoughtlessly by having a lust driven, sex hookup or in a committed marriage with planning, purpose, love and welcome?

Would you spend most of your pregnancy in a stressful job or in an environment of rest, safety and attentiveness?

Would your baby be born in a house full of strangers, uncommitted, uncaring and temporal until something else comes along folk or in the house of your parents and ancestors, among a family postured to surround, support and serve?

Would you choose for your children the crowded, volatile, frantic, dirty life of the city or the fresh air of the countryside, with it’s sounds, smells and sights?

Would you choose to feed your child industry food, dead, pre-packaged, preserved to endure a nuclear holocaust foods or mothers milk and fruits from the own garden and field?

Would you choose for your children meaningless, mass-produced cheap plastic toys or discover the delights and diversity of nature’s multi-layered worlds?

Would you choose for your child cookie-cutter, one-size fits-all, evolving values, sit, listen and repeat taught what to think education from strangers or teach them to form their own thoughts through timeless truths and traditions passed on through a web of multi-generational relationships that teach them not only what to think but more importantly how to think?

Would you choose for your child to grow up as a dissatisfied couch-potato, complacent, unsure of themselves, a follower of temporal trends and treats or as an explorer, confident, wonder-driven, excited about the world, strong in faith, values and direction?

Which choice would you make?

May we give the best for our children and be led by a grand vision for our families and homes and create a space of love, truth and tradition. I know that life isn’t always an either or situation and such thoughts might pain us to contemplate. But you can make value driven decisions for your family. God has called you to walk in trust, faith and courage to make the life of your home and family one that honors the past, is healthy and helpful in the present and prepares your kids for whatever the future has in store.

Don’t surrender such an opportunity, don’t give over that authority to people you know won’t care for your kids like you would. Don’t make careless decisions that will impact a lifetime.

Be purposeful, be peacefully driven and delightfully determined to carve out the best life you can that is the most beautiful, good and true for those you love. You won’t regret it.