The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior,
not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things that they
admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children. Titus
2:3-4
I probably should have begun this blog with a post like
this. It’s basically the reason I write
this blog, to teach my children, and someday, Lord willing, my grandchildren,
the good things….the wisdom God has given us in the Bible.
Just as we might receive recipes from grandmothers and great
aunts, and then pass them down to our children and grandchildren, we also need
to share our own life lessons. I wish my
grandmother had had a love of writing.
Thankfully, I spent a lot of time with her and was able to listen and now,
recollect. As we would wash dinner
dishes together (she scrubbed and rinsed, I dried), I was always regaled with
stories and lessons on how to live a godly life. She exhorted on simple things like not to
brag, remember that God is always watching, when Christ returns to make sure
you are someplace that would be pleasing to Him. I can’t help but smile as I reminisce about
those times in her kitchen.
My own kids make fun of me on how I like to “lecture”
them. I do it in the car when they can’t
escape. Sometimes it irritates them, and can come out as nagging, but I do it
because I love them. They know that,
too, thankfully. I don’t leave out the
hurts I feel, either. They see my tears
of sorrow as well as those of joy. They
know my weaknesses and the sins I struggle with each day. As I get older, and perhaps one day see them
leave the nest, they’ll have learned from me, and remember me as not only their mother, but also their teacher
of good things.
