Do you know the distance from your head to your heart is roughly 18 inches? Go ahead and try it, pull out a ruler. I’ll wait.
Standing on this pier taking this picture of my children, I can’t help feeling darkness descending on the morals and the values I’ve been teaching my kids to what they are learning out there. It’s like a slow lengthening.
The world is beautiful and chaotic I’ve been told. On most days, I believe it. Other days, when turning on the TV, reading stuff online, I shake my head and raise my fist to the Heavens.
Sometimes the waters can be smooth like glass, and other times, waves can come, shaking one’s core beliefs. Calm waters can also be deceiving where one thinks everything is fine, but underneath there lies a dangerous current that’s rumbling.
There’s no doubt we are living on the edge these days. Kids especially, being pushed and pressured into so many different directions. Social media is the true culprit—addictive entertainment just finger taps away.
Watching my two daughters posing and staring off into the trees and bushes, I’m silently praying that their head and heart will always be aligned and that when the sparkling boats are coming by, they will know the difference between the right boat to get into and the one in which they should turn and walk away from.
Until then, I’ve got my work cut out for me, but I won’t stop in providing those nuggets of truth where I can.
