2 March 2013
I wonder what my children see when they survey their world?
Is it a place of wonderment, a place of hope? Or do they fear what lay ahead?
Their constant uncertainty for our expectance of them to be all that they can be. A mothers wish for them to be bound in the strangle hold of Neverland and for that prince to caress her slipper less foot, in the surety of finding a happy ever after?
Or a father to survey and stand ram-rod proud as his boy; a figure of masculinity leads but never follows to discover gold at a fingers touch?
Life has a habit of disappointing, or does it?
If we did but realise, the greatest gift we could bestow to our children is love.
For to love, is to achieve our very purpose in life. And with Love will come reward a plenty. Success in living - not necessarily in life, and contentment for what they may or may not have.
Yes, it brings hurt and heartache but if you have truly learned to love, you have learned to forgive also and forgiveness is the greatest medicine.
I hope and pray that if I teach my children nothing more in life, I teach them how to love and to be loved, but I also know this to be a lesson that I too am still attempting to master!
A Lesson In Love • Opuss № I