Weekend

TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.--PROVERBS 22:6 COMMENTARY
HAVE LEFT GOOD FRIENDS IN GRAND JUNCTION, returned to Boulder and now heading to Riverton, Wyoming today to visit an old friend before going on to Jackson Hole early Sunday. Will be out of range for a while.

Saw this article, Failure Is Not An Option, at the Gospel Coaltion today and think it hits a central truth of our troubled times. No child can be 'given' self-esteem by parents or anyone else. They can only be lovingly shepherded to learn the eternal Truths of God, take responsibility and repent when they fail which leads to learning from their mistakes and slowly growing up to adulthood. (The process never ends for any of us!) All else stunts growth and creates another generation of self-centered, self-absorbed narcissists.

Failure is an option and more than that, a requirement of living and growing up. We can pray that failure comes in small doses rather than being forestalled in one big, overwhelming tsunami later on. Not only do parents try to shield their children from failure, politically correct teachers, Congressional leaders and the president pitch in at every turn attempting to prevent it. But it only sweeps it under the rug only to return in a bigger and more painful lesson.

Thank you for coming by. God bless.