A Child of God

I found this while I was looking through notebooks. It was between a Breakfast ideas list and a Lunch ideas list. Written sometime between February and July 2000. There were menus dated 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, etc before the breakfast ideas and a dentist appointment scribbled in some pages after for 7-6-00. I wonder what was on the missing pages. Probably grocery lists, or a number jotted down and handed off to my husband.

“A child is not a dog

      to fetch you this and that.

A child is not a remote

      to get up and change the TV

      channel at your whim

      because you don't feel like it.

Sometimes a child is scared

      when there seems to be no

      reason at all, but that

      doesn't mean the fear is

      less legit'.

God made each child unique

      and individual and no less

      special than you.

How would you treat someone

      else's child, a guest in your

      house, whose parent was

      standing near?

You consider yourself a child of God,

      but have you considered who

      else in your house is also a child

      of the God who cares for them too?”