Children: Lilies of the Field
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Comment from JT traveller
A beautiful poem and a wonderful message. If only all parents believed in the same ideals. While uplifting and encouraging your poem saddens me reflecting on my own childhood experiences. Oh well, you can't have it all! As they say. I enjoyed the read Tom. Jacqueline
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2023
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A beautiful poem and a wonderful message. If only all parents believed in the same ideals. While uplifting and encouraging your poem saddens me reflecting on my own childhood experiences. Oh well, you can't have it all! As they say. I enjoyed the read Tom. Jacqueline
Comment Written 23-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2023
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But WE survived.
I had a sterner challenge with five sisters and no supporting brothers.
Comment from kahpot
Children became what we taught them and will become what we leave them, this is an excellent read, so many messages in your story for us to read, if we could unite all the children it would be a much better world, very well written****kahpot
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Children became what we taught them and will become what we leave them, this is an excellent read, so many messages in your story for us to read, if we could unite all the children it would be a much better world, very well written****kahpot
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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How do we reunite the lost kids, abandoned for a needle of coke or a jigger of rye? Children of drunken parents unfortunately have a tendency of becoming an alcoholic themselves.
Comment from royowen
My wife and I are giving a talk/preach on 'Legacy' at our church next month, and of course, we raised our kids in the bosom and the nurture of the family, with Christ in the centre, and despite our stumbling and playing it by ear, (children are uniquely different from one another) it seems that it was successful, with the grandchildren, already showing, despite their youth, a beauty of something akin to the butterfly, well done Tom, , blessings Roy
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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My wife and I are giving a talk/preach on 'Legacy' at our church next month, and of course, we raised our kids in the bosom and the nurture of the family, with Christ in the centre, and despite our stumbling and playing it by ear, (children are uniquely different from one another) it seems that it was successful, with the grandchildren, already showing, despite their youth, a beauty of something akin to the butterfly, well done Tom, , blessings Roy
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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and i commend you and yours for the success of those that followed your lead. Well done.
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Bless you
Comment from Ric Myworld
Well, as we all know, those scriptures are referring to those taught properly coming home to Christ when all is said and done. But most will stray from time to time along the way before coming back to what they know. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Well, as we all know, those scriptures are referring to those taught properly coming home to Christ when all is said and done. But most will stray from time to time along the way before coming back to what they know. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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to what they know or should know or will know in the afterlife.
Comment from Mario PIERRE
Great philosophical thoughts about children and their place in our lives. Certainly these questions are important to ask. Did we, as a generation, fail our children?
Great post!!
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Great philosophical thoughts about children and their place in our lives. Certainly these questions are important to ask. Did we, as a generation, fail our children?
Great post!!
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Some did, some not so. Amazing how pets are often more loved than the kids we birth. Mine are now in their thirties, and are fine as they are, but I wonder how could I have made them better?
Comment from BethShelby
I can see the simularity of lilies in a fertile field that is nurished by rain and sunshine and children who have the nurishment and care they need. Yes, as parents is our responsibility to give children the encouragement and knowledge and love they need to grow into mature adults. It is sad, that many children are left to fend for themselves by people who should have never been parents.
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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I can see the simularity of lilies in a fertile field that is nurished by rain and sunshine and children who have the nurishment and care they need. Yes, as parents is our responsibility to give children the encouragement and knowledge and love they need to grow into mature adults. It is sad, that many children are left to fend for themselves by people who should have never been parents.
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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and yet, in our world where half the marriages end in divorce, mandating the surviving spouse has to work outside the house to survive, the road is strewn with potholes to accomplish what a single-parent home would like to have be theirs.
Comment from Julcia
This photo- word picture read presents as a rhizome rich deeply
rooted in the scriptures delight. I must relate this to a special movie of my musing, Lillies of the Field.
All together-- AMEN, AMEN,AMEN.
Julcia
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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This photo- word picture read presents as a rhizome rich deeply
rooted in the scriptures delight. I must relate this to a special movie of my musing, Lillies of the Field.
All together-- AMEN, AMEN,AMEN.
Julcia
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Poitier was brilliant in the story. It deserves to be retrieved from the archives and shown on teevee to prove that Hollywood, once upon a time, produced more than today's fluff.
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AMEN!Julcia
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
I so agree with your post Tom, children need to be nurtured and cared for if they are to be well adjusted adults. I adored my kids growing up and today they are amazing adult people and I am proud of them. I cannot imagine neglecting a child and I know it happens, they are such innocent beings. A fine post Tom, much enjoyed, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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I so agree with your post Tom, children need to be nurtured and cared for if they are to be well adjusted adults. I adored my kids growing up and today they are amazing adult people and I am proud of them. I cannot imagine neglecting a child and I know it happens, they are such innocent beings. A fine post Tom, much enjoyed, love Dolly x
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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From out of the swill, I call my mind, thoughts are continuously swirling about, so my readers never know what it is 'he' is going to write next. Thanks for your time and comments.
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Yes, I wondering the same thing, you seem to be full of surprises Tom x x x
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What can I say, being a prodigy of precipitousness comes easy to me. :-)
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Careful you don?t fall Tom x
Comment from strandregs
Nice prayer to/ for the forces of good.
Well accepted by those who do good.
And ignored by those who don't.
There is a civil war of minds in Israel now between those who brought up their children to seek control and impose their way of interpreting God's will.
And those who brought up their children to seek freedom and respect choice.
My father did not survive the holocost to bring up free children in a free country .
To have his grandchildren subjected to a Jewish Iranian orthodox regime where women will be hauled away to correctio camps if they walk around in short sleeves, etc...
This is not attack on your poem. Which is beautiful. Just me pissed off with the orthodox. :-))Z.
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Nice prayer to/ for the forces of good.
Well accepted by those who do good.
And ignored by those who don't.
There is a civil war of minds in Israel now between those who brought up their children to seek control and impose their way of interpreting God's will.
And those who brought up their children to seek freedom and respect choice.
My father did not survive the holocost to bring up free children in a free country .
To have his grandchildren subjected to a Jewish Iranian orthodox regime where women will be hauled away to correctio camps if they walk around in short sleeves, etc...
This is not attack on your poem. Which is beautiful. Just me pissed off with the orthodox. :-))Z.
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Say it loud and say it proud. How can history inch closer to being repeated?
Comment from Wendy G
Your words are right - and parents have a huge responsibility to care for and protect them, and nourish and nurture them - then children will bloom into responsible and caring adults. Unfortunately many parents can't, won't or don't fulfil their responsibilities to "weed the soil of their environment", provide supporive stakes, yes, and "train them up in the way they should go". Parenting classes should be obligatory - or perhaps offered by churches so that those who want to learn how to be wise parents can do so.
Wendy
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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Your words are right - and parents have a huge responsibility to care for and protect them, and nourish and nurture them - then children will bloom into responsible and caring adults. Unfortunately many parents can't, won't or don't fulfil their responsibilities to "weed the soil of their environment", provide supporive stakes, yes, and "train them up in the way they should go". Parenting classes should be obligatory - or perhaps offered by churches so that those who want to learn how to be wise parents can do so.
Wendy
Comment Written 22-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 22-Mar-2023
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The choice is between letting government teach alternate lifestyles, regardless how minor the agenda may be, or letting the pure in heart with good ill intent teach them to love unconditionally but not egregiously to gain a vote. Spot on W.G.
