Life EQUALS change !!!

PLEASE......... understand I am not in any way

preaching, I am just relating something in a parenting
sense that I learned long ago........

following what I have written,  I've included a copy
of THE MOST POWERFUL PRAYER that I personally
have ever encountered in my life.........

xo xo xo
Deb

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Life EQUALS change !!!

A few weeks after

January 28, 1986
I learned the most valuable

parenting lesson I could ever have learned.

On that date, 73 seconds after liftoff, the Challenger Space Shuttle

blew up.    In the blink of an eye, it’s 7 crew members were gone

from this Earth.

I am sorry to say that I don't recall which male astronaut

it was who said this to his young children, but one of them, prior

to his going up in the Challenger shuttle said to his children….

“Don’t worry, Daddy will be okay”.

The point was made at that time, that you can never tell

children ‘do not worry everything will be okay’.

At that time, my daughter Nicole was almost 4 and my

son Vincent was 1 ½ yrs old.

There are unknowns in life and there are times when

you will not be able to say with 100 percent certainty that ….

“Everything will be okay”.

Children need life explained to them in an age appropriate

manor.    You would not speak to a 2 yr old in the same way

that you would have a conversation with a 15 year old.

Telling a child do not worry everything will be okay,

is paramount to saying ‘You will have blue sunny skies

for the rest of your life’.   ‘No darkness will come,

no night, only blue skies’.

You can not take your 5 year old child and keep them

a 5 year old forever……

Our job then as parents and teachers of our children is

to be able to balance the truth of life, that everything does

change, with the fact that today is the day you get to live in.

This is NO EASY task, because we as adults don’t fully

understand every change that comes our way.!!!!!!!!!

Yet, change happens and change is inevitable. 

Time moves, seasons change……….

When we teach our children that life equals change,

we empower and equip them to stand tall and look

change in the face and keep moving forward.

The FACT is that we will NOT always be at their side

to assist them with ALL of life’s changes, but IF we have

laid down this foundation of understanding,

they will be better able to deal with the uncertainties

that will come their way.   

D. Estep

3-24-2006

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The Serenity Prayer 

God, grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdome to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr