Mi Choza De Nipa

By Dr James Dobson When I was in university , I ran a long distance race I will never forget. I did not win it, but I did learn a valuable lesson about myself, and about marriage . Although I had not trained properly, I bounded onto the track full of energy and optimism. At the sound of the starting gun, I tore off as fast as I could and left the pack far behind. By the second lap, however, my side was splitting and the pack was closing in on me. Somewhere near the halfway mark, I was sucking air frantically and my chest was heaving like a great grey whale. I soon collapsed on the infield grass in a sweating heap of failure, losing the race and my pride in one great disaster. Marathons are very different from sprints, and you have to learn to pace yourself if you're going to endure to the finish line. And isn't that true of married life, too? You have to set a pace that you can maintain through all the ups and downs of everyday living, and make up your mind to let nothing kno...

Image by carf via Flickr By Dr James Dobson Do you want to see what kind of men and women your children will grow up to be? Take a look in the mirror. A wise man once said: "The footsteps a child follows are often those that the father thought he covered up." How true that is. There are facts we can pass on to our children and skills we can teach; but how our children really learn is by watching us and observing our every move; by absorbing what we do and who we are. Someone once said: "Values are not taught to kids; they're caught by them." They're picked up routinely through the subtle influences of simply being together through the day. A poem by Herbert Parker sums it up best. He said: "To get his goodnight kiss he stood beside my chair one night, and raised an eager face to me, a face with love alight. And as I gathered in my arms the son God gave to me, I thanked the lad for being good and hoped he'd always be. " His little arms crep...