What is the most important thing to your family?
The other day I was visiting with a friend and she asked me, as a mother of a very young and active brood, could she pick my brain? Flattered, I consented to help however I could. "What tips do you have for me?" she asked. "What is the most important thing you have learned in raising all those kids? I mean, you've home schooled them all, and for goodness sakes, nine of them! They look like they're doing well. Let me learn from you. What is the most important thing I can do?" Smiling inside, I realized that the old Indian saying, "Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his mocassins." applied here. If she only knew all the mistakes I had made! All the things I neglected or chose badly! Ah, well. But, prayerfully considering, I tried to give her quick counsel while we carried one little body away from the curb and picked up toast for another urchin's breakfast. The two most important things we done for our children? ...