In a world where everyone wants to live in comfort, luxury, entertainment, parties, all forms of vanities, all forms of vices, no room for sacrifice, no space for sharing and generosity, no time for understanding, no care and concern for others, no kindness, no real and true love, only self-contentedness, PARENTING becomes the hardest, most unwanted, even most hated thing to do. This is perhaps an exaggeration on my part to believe that this is the kind of world we are living in now, but I also believe and I have faith in my heart that PARENTING can also become the GOSPEL of LOVE through which, this "violent" world full of indifference will be transformed into a BIG FAMILY of loving parents, children, friends, neighbors, etc…
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In this blog of mine, I will be sharing my own reflections on parenting for I myself am a parent. I am a father to two kids, and a husband to one wife, of course. I have to emphasize this thing, since there are men who want one kid per one woman. And so having many kids means having more than one wife, that is, if possible two or more partners. I will be tackling this issue on my new post. For now, it is my hope that whoever reads my blogs will get some inspirations to become apostles of the gospel of love to the world in spite of the issues I have already mentioned earlier. And I thank you in advance for dropping by. By the way, let me ask you this question, are you afraid to die?
My answer to that question is of two directions: On one hand, I am not afraid to die. Yes, I am not. Often times I even ask myself how will I die? What happens to life after death? I am curious about the feeling of dying. I am tempted to imagine the experience at the exact moment I will breathe my last. But seeing my family, how happy they are when I’m with them, raises a very difficult question which I am afraid to answer; what will happen to my family when I die? For sure, they will be missing me a lot. Will my death not kill them as well for too much pain they will face from losing me? With all the problems and trials, unpaid debts, tuition fees of my daughter, bills and other needs of the family, my death will kill my wife mystically, that is, she will suffer more than I will.
So you might ask me now, how is it related to parenting? As a father to my daughter and son and a husband to my wife, I am like a parent to them. As the bread winner of the family, it is my responsibility to provide them their basic needs. This is one important role of a parent, as a provider. This is even one reason why we Christians call God as Father, because He is our Provider. But my role as a parent does not end in being a provider, I must protect my family too; this is another important parental task that I have to fulfill as a parent. And by the way, I am not alone doing this task, my wife does it more often than I do, protecting our kids. More than eight hours a day I am at work and so my wife is left with the kids at home. She is protector to them. I want to write more on this blog, but I know it is not helpful. So with these two very important tasks of parents I tried to relate to my own life experience and that of my wife, I hope I am making sense to you. I know these are just two of many other tasks of parents, but I am sad to say that there are many parents out there who do not fulfill these for their families. I hope I do not sound as self-centered person in saying this.
To end my reflection, I would like to leave you a simple question: why are there parents not fulfilling their responsibilities and duties to their children? Thank you so much for journeying with me. God bless.
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of the photos used on this post, due credits go to the owners.
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of the photos used on this post, due credits go to the owners.
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