Sowing Seeds
Recently our family attended the Spirit Song Festival at King's Island. In fact, we haven't missed one of the Christian concert events since its inception. If you've ever cruised by the website you know how much Christian music means to us.
It caught us a little off guard when someone showed up on the second day just in time for the last two bands and claimed a seat, ticket-proof in hand, on the aisle. We'd spent almost two full days by ourselves at the end of this row and were feeling a sense of ownership. Of course we scooted over and even struck up a conversation between sets. At the end of the concert we talked again briefly and went our separate ways.
On the final day of the three-day concert our seatmate didn't show up until the last band was about to play again. "I'd be late to my own funeral," she joked as she fished in her backpack. She whipped out a cardboard bookmark that had been torn from a magazine and handed it to me with a grin. "I always come bearing gifts," she said.
When I looked at the bookmark, I had to chuckle. It was titled, "31 Biblical Virtues to pray for your kids." That was really a nice touch. She, a single woman, brought me a gift she knew would be useful. The amazing part is I had read the article before and knew the author. Bob Hostetler is a friend as well as a fellow member of a local writers' group.
The seeds we sow (whether in an article, on a blog, or in our children's lives) can have such an incredible impact. We might not know about it at the time-- or ever. The copyright on the bookmark was 1999. Isn't that cool to think that six years later these words are still touching lives?! They've bounced around to who knows where and landed back to me.
Keep talking to your kids, communicating with friends, penning articles, and writing those blogs. No doubt you're having more of an impact than you'll ever realize.
Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,
Linda W. Kelley
www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com
It caught us a little off guard when someone showed up on the second day just in time for the last two bands and claimed a seat, ticket-proof in hand, on the aisle. We'd spent almost two full days by ourselves at the end of this row and were feeling a sense of ownership. Of course we scooted over and even struck up a conversation between sets. At the end of the concert we talked again briefly and went our separate ways.
On the final day of the three-day concert our seatmate didn't show up until the last band was about to play again. "I'd be late to my own funeral," she joked as she fished in her backpack. She whipped out a cardboard bookmark that had been torn from a magazine and handed it to me with a grin. "I always come bearing gifts," she said.
When I looked at the bookmark, I had to chuckle. It was titled, "31 Biblical Virtues to pray for your kids." That was really a nice touch. She, a single woman, brought me a gift she knew would be useful. The amazing part is I had read the article before and knew the author. Bob Hostetler is a friend as well as a fellow member of a local writers' group.
The seeds we sow (whether in an article, on a blog, or in our children's lives) can have such an incredible impact. We might not know about it at the time-- or ever. The copyright on the bookmark was 1999. Isn't that cool to think that six years later these words are still touching lives?! They've bounced around to who knows where and landed back to me.
Keep talking to your kids, communicating with friends, penning articles, and writing those blogs. No doubt you're having more of an impact than you'll ever realize.
Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,
Linda W. Kelley
www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com
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