More on Parents and Children… | Grandma’s Stories

Feb 20th More on Parents and Children…

As I was reading some of what I had written for yesterday, it just came to me that there is something missing in our homes today. If you check – the next time you go to a neighbor or friend’s house – there is something that is very important to have – but – it is missing? Did you guess yet? It is the BIBLE – the Manuel for good living!

Every home has books on “How to Cook” – “How to lose Weight” – “How to fix this and that” and then there is a whole gambit of ‘junk’ reading – that my Mother would call trash! I know that there is some good reading – but why not have the best available reading – the perfect source for a FAMILY to find all the answers – for keeping a FAMILY aware of what to expect in this LIFE and what is needed to know for the LIFE to come?

When we were little – that is my brothers and I – we all sat on the sofa all around my Mother – and she would read from her BIBLE. We were mesmerized by the stories as she would read – and my Mother could read all day – as everything she was reading – was so interesting. It was the way she would read – everything just seems to come alive – as she put so much “action” in the words and stories. We were just glued in our spots and our ears just wanted more. Mom would have to stop, though – as she did have to make the meals for us.

When I was in the second grade, my Mother gave me my first BIBLE – which I still have. In the second grade – I was not as interested in reading the BIBLE – by myself – I enjoyed my Mother’s reading – and when we were in the Orphanage – there was no real time to read my BIBLE – I may have looked at it – but not as I would do if my Mother was there to guide my selecting – what and how to really get a start on reading the BIBLE.

Years later, when I had my own home and children – I did buy my children a BIBLE for small children – it had the most popular stories and of course lots of pictures for the children to look at while I or my husband would read to them – especially at bedtime. This of course is another book that I still have – and this book went to and from FLORIDA and to Missouri and all the other locations we moved to – and it does show some wear and tear – but I could not part with it for all the “tea in China” – as my husband would pick it up and read it – each and every time he would be recuperating from all of the surgeries – he had to have after having been shot!

Today I do have several BIBLES – and each one – has something special about it that I could not – ever think to part with any one! Each BIBLE – as I have received it – I would start that day and read each and every day there after – and would read through each book – until I have read through it – cover to cover – marking the day and year – and also adding birthdays of family and friends – if it was their birthday – as I would also say some special prayer for them – then and there – to be remembered forever by whoever would read in that section of my BIBLE. I would hope that someday each and every child would receive a BIBLE of their own and be able to take it to school – where they would have a class for reading the BIBLE and exploring all of the TRUTH – for a good start in LIFE’s Learning – as everything that we need to know – is there for those who will “SEEK and FIND!” Reading daily is the best of medicines for all of us – try it – and let me know?