When crying is the only means of communication by which an infant can express that they have a need, emotional abandonment is not a response of love.
If it annoyed God to hear from us, we'd be up a creek without a paddle.
Thy rod and thy staff shall comfort thee. Spare the comfort and the child will spoil.
How many childhood hurts do you remember, wherein the response wasn't love?
Yea, right!
Punishing or accusing a child, in advance of being tempted, eliminates motive for doing right.
Train up a child to love God and the church and, when he is old, he will love the church.
If children aren't aloud to serve today, they won't be leading tomorrow.
Not even our law judges a person before they have had a chance to speak for themselves.
God doesn't punish twice for the same crime and double jeopardy is against the law when done to adults.
Punishment, by any other name, is still the same.
If any lack wisdom, ask God yourself.
We do things to our children that God doesn't even do to us. Child Abuse was once legal, in the name of the Lord. Who are we listening to now? Isn't it about time we use the brain God gave us, let God be our example and become spiritual ministers toward our children, instead of waiting for others to do it?
© by Joyce C. Lock