Excerpts from To a Child, Love Is Spelled T-I-M-E
by Mac Anderson and Lance Wubbels
Time
Time is the raw material of your relationship with your child and must be guarded at all costs. It's true what they say: a bucket with a hole in it gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over. Life will shout a thousand demands to take you away from time spent with your child. If you permit the urgent to rule, you will lose time you can never recover of catch with your hand. What happens in the changing life of your child today will never be repeated. All the gold in the world cannot buy back either the little delights of the day or the big pleasures that happen without announcement or a plan. You simply have to be there.
Brevity
"Life is but a breath," so the Bible says.
So take a deep breath, fill your lungs, and think about it.
Poof! And it's gone.
"My days are swifter than a runner, they fly away," said the Old Testament patriarch Job.
And we can never catch them. We run out of breath.
Don't put your children off, even if you're tired.
Don't squelch the moment, even if it's inconvenient.
Nothing is more powerful than showing your love at the point of a felt need.
Tomorrow they may not be asking for you.
Life goes on, but children never stay the same.
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