It's been a while so I thought we may bust a few myths again! If you bust a myth on your own blog, feel free to link in my comments so I can have a read :)
It is like being thrown in the deep end, this parenting, this LIFE! So we start looking around for someone who knows what they are talking about.
Enter the self help books, the web sites, Oprah!
So many, trawling around for some clue of how to manage, come across someone who seems to have a bit of a clue and latch onto them like a drowning man to a lifesaver. This person seems to have the answer!! I will do what they tell me, follow their rules, read all their books and quote them endlessly to family, friends, and strangers on the street.
This becomes a problem when they start substituting the books, words and ideas of another for their own common sense. If they stop having the courage to make their own decisions and mistakes, and start making someone elses'.
Now I could probably get a masters in self-help and parenting books and websites. And I have found many genuinely useful insights in my reading. The danger is when we start letting the Ezzos, Pearls, Quiverfull Movement, that nice blog we set as our home page, do the thinking for us.
Because the truth is, each one of those people are learning and changing every day. All are slowly, in His grace, morphing into what He intended them to be. And it still hasn't finished. Nor will it finish until He comes again.
By all means, read, research and weigh the ideas of all the 'experts', but read the Bible more and pray more. Test each thing against the True Authority of the Word, because none of these experts are finished works yet! Use the common sense God gave you. If something isn't working for your family, stop and pray about it before grabbing the pamphlet to re-read the twelve step plan to obedient children!
So there you have it, nobody knows completely what they are talking about. So go to the one True Source.
But don't take my word for it, I may not know what I'm talking about!
5 comments:
You are so true.
Yeah, I can't help but feel silly when I realize that someone else's great idea doesn't work for me because the thing I was already doing is prefectly adequate and efective!
Oh wow! You mean, I might actually have the idea that should be printed and passed around?
Fancy that!
You are right about change too. AJ always says "some of what I believe today is different than what I believed five years ago, so why should I think that won't change again? One is foolish to think he has finally attained the last word on a subject."
Babies really shoud come with an instruction manual, don't you reckon!!
Jeanne
Babies do come with an instruction manual - it is called the Bible!
Beansntaters - thanks :)
Analene - That AJ is a smart man!
Jeanne & HSM4C - I agree on both counts! It is amazing how much guidance the Word gives when you delve into it on all things.
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