Column by Dr. Ann Hollingsworth
Children are probably the greatest blessing that a couple and a society can have – a great treasure that God gives us, but also leaves up to us how we exercise responsibility for them. While sin is sin and the Bible says that if we commit one sin, it is as bad as committing another sin – if we were to categorize sins, probably one of the worst is tarnishing this treasure of children.
Children bring us joy, unconditional love, words of simple wisdom, and much help in daily life in a family. Our responsibility as the adults in their lives is to take care of them and nourish their growth in all areas of their lives – most of all to love them,
What are we doing instead? Based on leftist, liberal reactions to the recent Supreme Court decision, many in the U.S. have gone the way of ancient heathen nations who routinely sacrificed their children to their gods. Is not abortion a sacrifice also – to the god of “me and what I want?”
Something that I find even more disturbing than the sacrifice of abortion is the sacrifice of children in a family to “me and what I want” as they grow up. As I get older, I am shocked and saddened to learn of childhood stories of friends and family where life seemed perfectly normal and “good” to the eyes of the public, but where there was meanness and abuse inside the walls of the so-called home. Recently, an acquaintance told me that while growing up, his dad made his children afraid of him. He said that he was in his fifties before it dawned on him that his dad could not beat him anymore. As children, I thought this family had things good and loving.
We take care of the heirloom silver by polishing it and other treasures also get due care and attention. Should we not also give care and attention to our children as though they are valuable – and not just an unwanted responsibility from having sex?
