LIE #7: ''I SHOULD SHIELD MY CHILD FROM SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.'' (7 OF 10)
Scripture: Job 9:34, Job 21:9, Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 23:12-13
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Lie #7: ''I Should Shield My Child from Serious Consequences.'' (7 of 10)
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Job 9:34, 21:9; Proverbs 13:24, 23:12-13
I grew up attending a small private school in Dalzell, SC, called Thomas Sumter Academy. Our headmaster was named ''Mr. Owens.'' He was a wise, caring but imposing figure that none of us had any desire to cross in an unpleasant way! In speaking to the student body, Mr. Owens would sometimes quote a statement originally made by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is forever seared in my brain: ''Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.''
That has a nice, prophetic ring to it, does it not? ''Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.'' What that means is, eventually, try though you may to avoid it, you will have to face the consequences for your actions. ''Consequences'' essentially refers to the result of any given action. These results may be positive or negative. Regardless, consequences teach us a great deal and are, in fact, part of the natural order or things.
One of the most descriptive expressions of the inevitability of consequences can be found in the words of the character Quentin in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn't matter: that pebble's watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm...
Indeed, the effects of every action go on and on, and wise is the person who lets the realit ...
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Job 9:34, 21:9; Proverbs 13:24, 23:12-13
I grew up attending a small private school in Dalzell, SC, called Thomas Sumter Academy. Our headmaster was named ''Mr. Owens.'' He was a wise, caring but imposing figure that none of us had any desire to cross in an unpleasant way! In speaking to the student body, Mr. Owens would sometimes quote a statement originally made by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is forever seared in my brain: ''Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.''
That has a nice, prophetic ring to it, does it not? ''Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.'' What that means is, eventually, try though you may to avoid it, you will have to face the consequences for your actions. ''Consequences'' essentially refers to the result of any given action. These results may be positive or negative. Regardless, consequences teach us a great deal and are, in fact, part of the natural order or things.
One of the most descriptive expressions of the inevitability of consequences can be found in the words of the character Quentin in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn't matter: that pebble's watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm...
Indeed, the effects of every action go on and on, and wise is the person who lets the realit ...
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