Yesterday was a lost day, whatever I have in the way of sickness just zapped me of any energy. I didn't even have enough energy to put thoughts into a blog. Basically I was a lump all day. No fun when your family is home for only a couple of days?!? I wondered how do people wracked in poverty do it? I mean if you can't scavenge for food then there is nothing to eat, so when they are sick and not up to it what do they do? Not eat and get weaker? Push themselves to work and get weaker? It seems to me it is a loss either way???
I said I would return to thoughts on the book "Too Small to Ignore." I am finding it more difficult to highlight than anticipated. Earlier in this blog I offered my reaction to the Part 1 of the book. I remember writing I wish I had read it before becoming a dad; I might have made some changes. In part 2 Wess trumpets a call to make children a priority. Not only international children in need, but children everywhere… children in our homes, families and extended families, in our churches, schools and throughout the world. Wess helped me see the innate beauty and value of children as they are, not merely as potential adults.
His view continues to shake my very core. And the wonderful thing for me is that Wess did this without playing the guilt card. I don't recall one "you should have" in the entire book. Like an artistic master, Wess brushes and layers stories and thoughts of varying hues and textures creating an exquisite portrait valuing children. His portrait is inspiring me.
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