So here it is Halloween 2010 and I am still bothered by the fact people wont let us just be the parents we want to be. We don't celebrate Halloween or Christmas or Easter or Birthdays. The only "holiday" we celebrate would be our Anniversary. It is the time that we became a family united. Sure we had our son 4 days before we got married but that is the day we were official legal and binding and covenant made one with each other and one with God.
See we don't do Halloween because we spend so much time educating our kids how important is it to NOT talk to strangers or to take candy from them. So why in all the world and for the love of everything green, are we going to take our children one night a year to the strangers' houses and ASK them for candy? What are we teaching our kids?
This brings us to Christmas and "Santa". We dont' celebrate Christmas for several reasons. Christ never asked us to remember his birth. Don't get me wrong it is important to remember the awesomeness of God and the fulfilling of His prophecies. But GOD didn't have a fat white man in a ared suit with a belly full of jello slide down my chiminey to give me gifts. WAIT, what would you DO if a fat white man slid down your chiminey into your house while you and your children were sleeping? What if you woke up to a fat white man in your livingroom while your sweet cherrished gift from God was sleeping on your couch ? Yeah and then that brings we teach our children not to lie that God hates lying and that lying destroys trust. SO WHY IN ALL THE WORLD are you going to lie to your child about a man that comes Christmas eve to give "good" boys and girls gifts. The real good boys and girls are already given a gift. OH WAIT so are the "bad" boys and girls, the most precious gift was that a son was born from God to a virgin so that he could die on a cross so we could all be forgiven of our sin and washed to be white as snow through his forgiveness. To top all this off, Christmastime is a time when many parents put themselves in debt to give their children everything they want. We are not commanded to give our children everything they want, we are commanded to teach them right and wrong and the way to know and follow God. Just read Proverbs.
We don't do Easter because people just wanna say its all about the Easter Bunny. WTF?!?!? The idea of the Easter Bunny has always just kinda freaked me out. GOD the Son rose from the dead on Easter. We remember him and that great day. We are quiet and reflective.
This brings me to birthdays. Sure I love the idea of celebrating the birth of my children, BUT life isn't all about them. Its about what good are you going to do for your community to glorify God? Being a productive member of society. I want my kids to care about people about doing good for them and how it feels to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. I want kids that aren't judgemental because we make them work for the things they have so they appreciate them.
I wonder if other people think about these things when they are judging me because I don't raise my family they way they raise theirs.
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