Journey into Forever

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea."      - Mark 9:42    Shortly after I had grandchildren, I learned an important lesson.  I don't know why I hadn't learned this with my own kids.  I think I was just too busy to notice.  Anyway, I learned the concept of "monkey see, monkey do" is really true.    Down to the smallest thing.  Children copy what they see others do.  It's the only way they learn how to do things, by watching how others interact in the world.  It's why it is so important that we try to be sure that everything they see and hear is appropriate, something they can learn positive things from.  As a child, teen, and young adult, I participated in many things I should not have.  Probably one of the most damaging things to me still today are the images I placed in my mind.  Once there, those

    "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with your whole heart."                         - Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)        I lose things.  Lots of things.  It's true.  Ask anyone who knows me.....I'm notorious for it.  Even more notorious for this than I am for my lack of a sense of direction.  My good friend Caren says I could get lost in a paper bag.  My husband is even more convinced.  More experience I guess.  Don't ask me how to get anywhere.  I may give you directions, but they won't be right.  Yeah, probably should stop giving directions.  Anyway, back to losing things.  I lose things constantly.  Once I lost a very expensive, special ring my husband got me.  Lost it for almost 2 years.  I found it in a desk drawer.  It had been scooped off one day when I was working on a paper.  I lose inexpensive things too, but usually it's the more important ones that cause me to seek diligently, sometimes for hours and sometimes for days, weeks, etc.