Recently, during the preaching Pastor Jonathan Shoemake asked me if I remembered a family that we were picking up, where we picked up a few of the kids and before we left with them on the bus, the mom said, “hold on, take this one too”, literally giving us a little baby in diapers. I nodded yes, but also thought to myself, “which one of those situations are you referring to?” because over the years we’ve had many like that. I’m pretty sure I know exactly which one he meant, but if they’ll give them, we’ll take them, love them and work with them, and we have and still do. We work in the art of teaching these children what it means to live well. What better way to live than to live for Jesus? It takes more than works of biological functions to train up a child. It takes many prayers, many tears, many object lessons, many goldfish, and many more of many more, but what can be more honorable than that? I dare say not much. If you haven’t felt honored in a while, hopefully this little read reminds you that you and your work is honorable, and more than anything we know that the One we do it for honors it, and there really can’t be a higher honor than that.
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. –Aristotle”