“THINKABOUTIT” THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Monday; December 3, 2007

 

          You might notice that I ain’t from around here.  About two dozen years of southern environment and education made a tremendous impression on me.  While I have been out of the South for more years than I was in it, I still sound Southern and still refer back to those colloquialisms that I learned growing up.  I may live north of the “line”; but, while you can take the boy out of the South, you can’t that the sound-of-the-South out of the boy.

          Dialect is not the only thing that we learn as little bitty people, we also learn our life-time values.  Yes, later influences have an impact on us; but, the most deeply rooted principles are those we learned as children.  In fact, the Bible relies upon this truism by noting, “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.”  (Proverbs 22:6).

          What are we teaching our children?  How will it serve them for the rest of their lives?

          Think about it!  For the Madison Avenue Church of Christ; this is Charlie Wharton.