One of the most quoted verses about parenting is found in PROVERBS 22:6-8 NLT, “Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it”.7 Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender. 8 Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will come to an end.
Having read that, our main concern will be on verse 6 “Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it” we will be looking at a practical story that we can all learn from and apply it as parents in training up our children.
let’s look at this story before critically and i believe we will have something to take home as parents,(especially the mother’s influence).
When Harry and Ada Mae Day brought their first child, Sandra, home from the hospital, it was to a tiny ranch house without running water, electricity, or a school within driving distance. But they refused to let their surroundings limit them. His father’s death had kept Harry from attending Stanford University, but he never lost hope that his daughter would study there. Ada Mae subscribed to educational newspapers and magazines, home-schooled her daughter and later sent her to the best boarding schools. One summer the entire family climbed to the dome of every state capitol west of the Mississippi! Sandra did attend Stanford, then law school, and eventually became the first woman Supreme Court justice in America.
The day she was sworn in she donned her robes and took her place among the other justices. Then she locked eyes with her family, and the tears began.
Solomon said, “Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.” What made Sandra Day O’Connor successful? Intelligence and ambition undoubtedly played a part. But much of the credit goes to a determined little woman sitting in a four-room adobe house reading to her kids hour after hour, and to parents who climbed the stairways of capitol domes alongside them. Chuck Swindoll says: “As significant as political, military, educational or religious figures may be, none compare to the impact made by mothers. Their words are never fully forgotten, their touch leaves an indelible impression…the memory of their presence lasts a lifetime. ask you, who else has that kind of influence?” May the good Lord bless all our good mothers and grant them more knowledge and wisdom to carry out their God given talents. Amen.
This is your brother in christ, the one the master loves.
