I don't want my kids to be those weird sheltered home-schooled kids who are brainwashed with their father's agenda as though they are part of some cult. I want my kids, however, to understand my take on things (I hope they deem my take worthy of adoption at some point). With that in mind, my hope is that they conceptualize God as creator first and foremost. I don't intend to lead them in the quagmire of (not-so)-scientific debates concerning exactly how it all took place. I want them to be familiar with the elegant and simplistic beauty of the notion that it is more rational to believe that love came by intent. Each person must believe that something just existed and from that something we have become. That personality designed our reality, with intent, is more plausible than the idea that stuff just was and it formed, against all odds, into what we experience. Human's who love with self-sacrificing compassion would've been removed from the gene pool long ago if natural selection was the only governing principle.
Love, sense for beauty, justice (true justice- not vengeance),civility, humor, personality, passion, and honor are a few things, off of the top of my head, that don't just come about by chance. Interestingly, these are the kinds of qualities that comprise who/what we are; that define us. They are the things that make us and our reality worthwhile. Adopting Darwin's theory of evolution as a satisfactory explanation for origin is to adopt the notion that there is really no reason for morality or personal expression. Morality is so much more than a means to carry on the human race; it is how we express our innate (that is a heavily connotated word implying that it was put there, with intent and without our doing) understanding that there is right and wrong and that relationship must be upheld. Personal expression is not utilitarian for chance to make the individual or the race stronger, it is a mirrored response to the creative character of a personal God.
I want my kids to know that there are two possibilities. Either we came about by impersonal matter, space, time, and chance (which, by the way, just happened to exist of their own accord); leaving us with no cause. Or, we came about by a Personal Designer (who, by the way, just happened to exist of His own accord); thus leaving us with cause, purpose and hope, evidenced at least by the knowledge, that we were/are the object(s) of desirability to the degree that we were put into being. If we have been created, then we were intended and our attributes have meaning.
3 comments:
I am so happy about the fact that you are not only sharing facts with your kids but you are showing them your heart. That is so much more important. Those are the things that they will hold on to for the rest of their lives (weather the agree or disagree). Always remember to show them much love even in those times you don't feel like you have anything to give. You my sweet brother have way more to give then you can ever imagen. I am very proud of you & know that God has so much instore for you, Tiffanie & for each of your kids. Now is your time to kick some ass! Btw... I give the Job tat 2 thumbs up!
Thank you for wanting to not just share your view points with your kids but your heart. That goes so much farther. It will give them something to truely hold on to. I am proud of you for your hard wk & for the love for your fam. Don't let discuragment hold you back from sharing the love you have for them. Even if you feel like you don't have anything to give because you my sweet brother have more to give them, then even you relize. I love you very much & know that God has so much instore for you, Tiffanie & for each one of your kids. Btw... the Job tat would be bad ass!
Adam,
This was an excellent blog. What could be more important than our existance having purpose and significance? I'm glad I'm not just a link in the monkey gene, and sure hope my kids will value themselves more than that as well.
Thanks for provoking some thought here...
Mary
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