Parent are Leaders

"We need parents who are PURE leaders. "

"These are some characteristics I have found in pure leaders. "

"Pure leaders are:

1. Humble - they know they cannot lead all on their own, they rely on many others
2. Fiercely devoted to a righteous cause - they know what they care about more than their life itself
3. Have faith in God - they know God knows who they are, where they are and what they need to do
4. Have integrity - they tell the truth, they will do the right thing, their motives are pure
5. Willing to work - they do not ask others to do anything they are not willing to do
6. Optimistic - about the future and about the people they lead
7. Believe in people - they know that "all this" is about people
8. Have vision - they have a remarkable respect for the past, they ask "how can we make things better in the future?"
9. Set an example worth following - they know they are being watched and are unafraid of what others will see about them
10. Have the courage to stand alone (if/when they ever have to) - they know the fate of unborn millions depends on their conduct as a part of the army of God "

"Our children need pure leaders...
It takes the elect to gather the elect...
At all costs be the leader you have been prepared for eons to be - a leader in the Last Days."

- Sheri Dew "Leadership in the Last Days" 13th October 2005 http://www.byutv.org/

Give Your Children PIE

Give your children plenty of PIE.

P - Praise (Genuine)
I - Instruction (Appropriate)
E - Encouragement (Warm and Faithful)

- Ed Pinegar

Addiction Recovery

"I define the recovery from addiction as the process of awakening to love. This is the same way that I would define any spiritual journey. Opening the heart to love is the highest human experience, and is what undoing addiction is about...
How would my awareness of myself and the world change this instant if I simply put all my energy into welcoming love into my life?"
Lee Jampolsky "Healing the Addictive Mind" p4

Children Are Not Small Adults

"But children are not small adults. Children, I think, need to feel safe long before they need to feel smart; children need to be carpet-bombed with affection long before they are big and strong enough to stand on their own two feet; children need parental boundaries firmly in place before those boundaries are removed; children need to be cleverly shielded from learning the harsher adult lessons, at least until such time as they can make sense of them. Children ultimately, ideally, need to be able to grow up and become adults who choose to do the leaving, rather than have their parents leave them, either physically or psychologically, while they are still children. Because if this happens they often keep searching desparately for 'love', when all they are really looking for is some place they can feel safe."
Kathryn Flett "The Heart-Shaped Bullet - A True Story" p220