Source: Letters - Post Courier, September 21, 2011
I WOULD like to comment further on my letter ‘Your house first, nation next’ which appeared on Monday’s edition of the Post-Courier.
Have you been spending enough time with your children?
It would be a shame if you spent so much time contributing to public cyber discourse, public service, community work and yet your family hardly sees nor hears you.
Have you been treating your spouse well? Have you been disciplining your children in love and not in anger?
Have you encouraged them to seek after wisdom by reading books?
Fellow young people yet to be blessed with that burden, how much time have you given to dreaming about your future children?
Have you thought how you’d raise them in a hostile world—a world that is sure to tear them apart? What values will you communicate to them when they come?
Bear in mind the most powerful form of communication is to walk the talk. God forbid our kids would be like those described above. Even as I write this, I shudder to think that I may be inadequate. Yet I hope...
In the days of old, a biblical hero named Nehemiah rallied his fellow Israelites to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
He and the people completed the task in 52 days! (A feat we would not likely match despite our modern technology).
His most effective method was to get families to build the section of the wall just outside or nearest to their houses.
And every family rose to the task diligently.
Each family would have had a father who would have believed that the greatness of Jerusalem counted on him and his family’s contribution.
He would have then rallied his household, shaped his family to be positive impacts of society. He would have been a good family man.
When my kids come into this world and meet yours...would they talk of great parents who taught them to be respectful to each other, to be loving and caring, courteous, to be honest and diligent, to be punctual?
To understand right and wrong using objective truth and morality (as opposed to subjective relativistic morality)?
Would they have learnt from their parents to be deep thinkers?
To have empathy for fellow man? To respect the rule of Law? To be Patriots?
Would they understand that the greatness of this beautiful nation depends not on great policies or economic models, or foolproof legislation, or on systems and processes; but on great people—starting with them?
I certainly hope those things for my unborn children.
I think about them regularly. Heck I even have names for them already!
I worry about what sort of world they will come into and how I would help them navigate these terrible seas.
I’m grateful I had parents that gave me direction.
I hope I would do a good job when my time comes.
And I hope that you would too...or that you are doing a good job right now.
Making our nation great starts where it should - my house first.
God bless PNG.
Heavenise Day!
Ganjiki.
Have you been spending enough time with your children?
It would be a shame if you spent so much time contributing to public cyber discourse, public service, community work and yet your family hardly sees nor hears you.
Have you been treating your spouse well? Have you been disciplining your children in love and not in anger?
Have you encouraged them to seek after wisdom by reading books?
Fellow young people yet to be blessed with that burden, how much time have you given to dreaming about your future children?
Have you thought how you’d raise them in a hostile world—a world that is sure to tear them apart? What values will you communicate to them when they come?
Bear in mind the most powerful form of communication is to walk the talk. God forbid our kids would be like those described above. Even as I write this, I shudder to think that I may be inadequate. Yet I hope...
In the days of old, a biblical hero named Nehemiah rallied his fellow Israelites to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
He and the people completed the task in 52 days! (A feat we would not likely match despite our modern technology).
His most effective method was to get families to build the section of the wall just outside or nearest to their houses.
And every family rose to the task diligently.
Each family would have had a father who would have believed that the greatness of Jerusalem counted on him and his family’s contribution.
He would have then rallied his household, shaped his family to be positive impacts of society. He would have been a good family man.
When my kids come into this world and meet yours...would they talk of great parents who taught them to be respectful to each other, to be loving and caring, courteous, to be honest and diligent, to be punctual?
To understand right and wrong using objective truth and morality (as opposed to subjective relativistic morality)?
Would they have learnt from their parents to be deep thinkers?
To have empathy for fellow man? To respect the rule of Law? To be Patriots?
Would they understand that the greatness of this beautiful nation depends not on great policies or economic models, or foolproof legislation, or on systems and processes; but on great people—starting with them?
I certainly hope those things for my unborn children.
I think about them regularly. Heck I even have names for them already!
I worry about what sort of world they will come into and how I would help them navigate these terrible seas.
I’m grateful I had parents that gave me direction.
I hope I would do a good job when my time comes.
And I hope that you would too...or that you are doing a good job right now.
Making our nation great starts where it should - my house first.
God bless PNG.
Heavenise Day!
Ganjiki.
Kandepian
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