Blessings

I have had a very blessed life, and am so lucky that in the latter part of the years I lived at home with my parents, we were very fortunate when it came to material things. Remembering life as it was, dirt poor and living day to day and paycheck to paycheck, I was able to cherish the prosperity that my parents found more so than my younger siblings that could not remember the days of "we don't have the money for that".

Growing up you always say that you want your kids to have more than you did. I believe that every parent wants the best for their children...but that does not always mean that you must obsessively spoil your children. Children that are spoiled tend to not do so well later in life when they are faced with the fact that they really aren't everything in the eyes of others.

I am not unlike most parents. I want for my children. I want them to have nice clothes to wear and for them to have the new toys that are the hot thing for the month. But I also want for them to know God. To have a deep, real relationship with Him. For them to know that not only does their family here on earth love them, but also their Heavenly Father. I pray that they are able to decifer later in life what is real and what is not. Having Jesus Christ in their life is going to be much more valuable to them than anything that money can buy them.

That's all for now.....